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> Also, that technology is also not really so fancy. What matters is that you have enough computing power. And data

by andrepd 4y ago

hot_gril 4y ago
Was going to say, the computing power isn't that meaningful compared to the data size and quality. Which Google probably has the lead on too.
- visarga 4y ago
  Probably they do have the best data. But I am not holding my breath for them, while I can hardly wait to see the GPT-4 release. I've been trained to expect little/nothing new from Google in the last 5 years, in practical terms. I need to use OCR for document understanding - Amazon Textract beats Google. When I need to translate, DeepL is better. When I need text to speech, NaturalReaders is much better. Google's voice understanding is OK, but Whisper is just as good or better, and free. YouTube recommendations are not great, and not very flexible, I have had better suggestions from chatGPT, it is actually quite surprising. GCP ranks below Azure and AWS. And finally, search quality is bad - very often what you search is replaced with unrelated and useless results. Tell me where does Google's excellence shine? Computational photography? They have so many researchers and developers working on so many things, and yet their main products are mediocre.
  - hot_gril 4y ago
    I'm similarly pessimistic about Google. They can keep old successes running at least. Their one thing that bothers me extra for some reason is Waze. They boast so much about their self-driving technology and take shots at Tesla, but you know, where do I buy a Waze? Oh, it's not a product I can buy or even use, it's just a beta test run in two cities that's far away from being a real product, let alone profitable. Odds of Google (or Alphabet w/e) axing that project is pretty high, yet they're still arrogant. Edit: Hahaha I mean Waymo, not Waze

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> Also, that technology is also not really so fancy. What matters is that you have enough computing power. And data

by andrepd 4y ago

> Also, that technology is also not really so fancy. What matters is that you have enough computing power. And data

hot_gril 4y ago
Was going to say, the computing power isn't that meaningful compared to the data size and quality. Which Google probably has the lead on too.
- visarga 4y ago
  Probably they do have the best data. But I am not holding my breath for them, while I can hardly wait to see the GPT-4 release. I've been trained to expect little/nothing new from Google in the last 5 years, in practical terms. I need to use OCR for document understanding - Amazon Textract beats Google. When I need to translate, DeepL is better. When I need text to speech, NaturalReaders is much better. Google's voice understanding is OK, but Whisper is just as good or better, and free. YouTube recommendations are not great, and not very flexible, I have had better suggestions from chatGPT, it is actually quite surprising. GCP ranks below Azure and AWS. And finally, search quality is bad - very often what you search is replaced with unrelated and useless results. Tell me where does Google's excellence shine? Computational photography? They have so many researchers and developers working on so many things, and yet their main products are mediocre.
  - hot_gril 4y ago
    I'm similarly pessimistic about Google. They can keep old successes running at least. Their one thing that bothers me extra for some reason is Waze. They boast so much about their self-driving technology and take shots at Tesla, but you know, where do I buy a Waze? Oh, it's not a product I can buy or even use, it's just a beta test run in two cities that's far away from being a real product, let alone profitable. Odds of Google (or Alphabet w/e) axing that project is pretty high, yet they're still arrogant. Edit: Hahaha I mean Waymo, not Waze