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Sundar Pichai should be fired
I was ignoring all the "ChatGPT caught Google flatfooted" talk thinking today's event might prove doubters wrong but they were right, it was mainly a recap of minor features no one cares about.
The Bing announcement wasn't the step change many people are saying it was but at least it came with a fresh coat of paint and some amount of interactivity in the UI and it wasn't a total waste of time like the Google thing.
Holding back their LLM offering was obviously a huge strategic error but not having a thousand functional chat based search UI mockups ready for just an eventuality is an inexcusable and fireable offense.
My understanding is that Pichai was brought in because he was this level headed people pleaser but recent events have shown he's way too passive and his lasting legacy might be Google losing their considerable AI lead and starting down the road to irrelevance.
- revskill 4y agoEven if Google succeeded in some ways, serious human would avoid them at all cost. Because it succeeded on Ad business, which's harmful for the web. I only care about the web health, that's why many people (like you), who's not serious about the web ignore that fundamental fact. Google needs to die, it's the fact, and it'll eventually, given enough time.
- smoldesu 4y ago> Because it succeeded on Ad business, which's harmful for the web Gotta pay for the millions of hosted videos and websites somehow.
- duringmath 4y agoYour precious web wouldn't exist without ad revenue, ads is why the web is open and free (no matter what definition of "free" you're comfortable with)
- marssaxman 4y agoThe web was a lot of fun before ads came along. It was all open and free back then.