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> For Google, the less productive they are, the better. So Google spends a tonne of resources developing Tensor Flow only to OSS it, commoditizing AI and makin
by mythz 7y ago
> For Google, the less productive they are, the better.
So Google spends a tonne of resources developing Tensor Flow only to OSS it, commoditizing AI and making it more accessible than ever, gives away lots of $$$ on AI competitions encouraging more people to get into AI/ML, acquires Kaggle, gives away tonnes of public datasets for anyone to use, just so they can hire new AI/ML staff to pay them obscene amounts of money to do nothing?
How did this line of thought become prevalent here?
- otabdeveloper4 7y ago> ...just so they can hire new AI/ML staff to pay them obscene amounts of money to do nothing? Pretty much. If somebody somewhere invents their own AI framework and uses it to build a better ad targeting system, then Google is toast. This way the risk is taken care of. (Or at least it is from the management point of view.)
- xiphias2 7y agoYou’re underestimating how hard it is to grow the profit of a trillion dollar company by 20-30% in a year. It takes lot of innovation (both in improving its properties and ad targeting in Google’s case for example)