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> Despite the fact that AI is widely regarded as the future, Google has not made a significant effort to dominate in this field. I think of “Google and AI”, an
by skissane 4y ago
> Despite the fact that AI is widely regarded as the future, Google has not made a significant effort to dominate in this field.
I think of “Google and AI”, and I remember hearing more about their work on “AI ethics” than work on actual “AI” itself. Of course, ethics is important, but if you are more focused on the ethics of doing something than actually doing it, that’s scarcely a recipe for leading the market-on the contrary, it sounds rather risk-averse-and, maybe that’s unfair, I don’t know, but that’s just the impression I get from my own limited perspective.
- hallqv 4y ago[flagged]
- hef19898 4y agoWhat has "wokeness" to do with any of that?
- FormerBandmate 4y agoAI ethics is also big at OpenAI tbf. OpenAI actually releases major models to the public, Google looks like the IBM to their Microsoft right now. Google has created things like TensorFlow tho, OpenAI is flashy but only time will tell if that leads to real, monetizable results
- amf12 4y ago> Google looks like the IBM to their Microsoft right now. I really dislike how Microsoft is being considered to "be better at AI" recently. No, they just integrated another AI solution in Bing. They haven't released any big AI product themselves for a long time.
- flakiness 4y agoThe parent comment refers to MS at 2000s, not to the one today.
- guelo 4y agoThat's just whatever antiwoke media you consume that made a big deal out of the one ethics thing.
- michaelt 4y ago> I think of “Google and AI”, and I remember hearing more about their work on “AI ethics” than work on actual “AI” itself. TensorFlow? MobileNet? TPUs? Products like Google Translate, Image Search, Youtube's voice recognition subtitles? Google's done plenty of cutting edge ML stuff. I'll admit their voice assistant is nothing to write home about - but it was the equal of its mediocre competitors at the time it was released.
- tlogan 4y agoYes: but these seems like engineering products which were not leaders in the market. No clear strategy or vision.
- fidgewidge 4y agoGoogle uses AI/ML all over the place to incrementally improve their products and always has but what people mean by "AI" in this context is the big LLMs or generative AI.