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I kind of feel they should be. I cannot remember what their last major customer-facing AI product launch after Google Assistant. Sure there is AI in photo tunin

I kind of feel they should be. I cannot remember what their last major customer-facing AI product launch after Google Assistant. Sure there is AI in photo tuning and many interesting features for the Pixel phone, and there is Gmail autocomplete but I remember I used to really following every Google product launch when I was a kid: there is Google Reader, Google Drive launch in those days. That excitement was kind of gone: all the new AI products feels like polished but conservative. The GPTs and Whisper really get me excited again these days though. But Google pioneered this field. I love their JAX, but in a way many people would love pytorch but not so much in the META company.

closewith 4y ago
Personally I've no interest in any new Google products because who knows when it may be discontinued with little or no notice. Most recently Optimize, but I've also been burned by Universal Analytics, Fusion Tables, goo.gl, and Google Site Search.
- xnx 4y ago
  I did not know about the Google Optimize shutdown. That's a shame. Google Analytics might be the product they've bungled the most after chat (breaking upgrades, features moved out then moved back, enhanced ecommerce, etc.).
ignoramous 4y ago
> I love their JAX For those out of loop: https://github.com/google/jax https://github.com/google/jax See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682507
- dekhn 4y ago
  Interesting that the Jax page still says it's not an official google product (a recent Research publication said it was).
kyrra 4y ago
There is https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/ https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/, but sadly it's not consumer facing yet.
jeffbee 4y ago
Google Assistant was launched 6 years ago. Probably the most AI that Google has inflicted upon the general public since then is Waymo One. Other recent launches include the thing that automatically fills in your formulas in Google Sheets. Also DeepMind's WaveNet text-to-speech. Then there's fancy stuff like Project Relate that will train a speech-to-text model individually for disabled users[1]. But mostly the ML stuff is silently launched behind the scenes. And you slowly become inured to astonishing feats of machine learning like being able to translate spoken Chinese to English text on your mobile, and cars that drive themselves, and the fact that you can search your photos for "toy lizard" and that actually works. Edited to add: with regard to the idea that some competitor with an AI code generator will out-program Google as an organization, you should take note that Google has already deployed AI code generators in large-scale production. So whenever a future competitor re-invents this facility at that moment they are already years behind Google[2]. To summarize, I believe it is somewhat strange to believe that the organization with demonstrated state-of-the-art machine learning research and development will be caught unaware by the ML revolution. 1: https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/globalgoals/projects/project-relate https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/globalgoals/projects/... 2: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completion-improves.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completio...

closewith 4y ago

Personally I've no interest in any new Google products because who knows when it may be discontinued with little or no notice. Most recently Optimize, but I've also been burned by Universal Analytics, Fusion Tables, goo.gl, and Google Site Search.

xnx 4y ago
I did not know about the Google Optimize shutdown. That's a shame. Google Analytics might be the product they've bungled the most after chat (breaking upgrades, features moved out then moved back, enhanced ecommerce, etc.).

ignoramous 4y ago

> I love their JAX For those out of loop: https://github.com/google/jax https://github.com/google/jax See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682507

dekhn 4y ago
Interesting that the Jax page still says it's not an official google product (a recent Research publication said it was).

kyrra 4y ago

There is https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/ https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/, but sadly it's not consumer facing yet.

jeffbee 4y ago

Google Assistant was launched 6 years ago. Probably the most AI that Google has inflicted upon the general public since then is Waymo One. Other recent launches include the thing that automatically fills in your formulas in Google Sheets. Also DeepMind's WaveNet text-to-speech. Then there's fancy stuff like Project Relate that will train a speech-to-text model individually for disabled users[1]. But mostly the ML stuff is silently launched behind the scenes. And you slowly become inured to astonishing feats of machine learning like being able to translate spoken Chinese to English text on your mobile, and cars that drive themselves, and the fact that you can search your photos for "toy lizard" and that actually works. Edited to add: with regard to the idea that some competitor with an AI code generator will out-program Google as an organization, you should take note that Google has already deployed AI code generators in large-scale production. So whenever a future competitor re-invents this facility at that moment they are already years behind Google[2]. To summarize, I believe it is somewhat strange to believe that the organization with demonstrated state-of-the-art machine learning research and development will be caught unaware by the ML revolution. 1: https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/globalgoals/projects/project-relate https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/globalgoals/projects/... 2: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completion-improves.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completio...