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While this is only a singular opinion, Google’s problems to successfully innovate are in plain sight. Google Research produces the seminal paper on Transformer

While this is only a singular opinion, Google’s problems to successfully innovate are in plain sight. Google Research produces the seminal paper on Transformers - only to see others pick up their work and run with it. Android is losing market share. Stadia flopped. ChromeOS is on life support. Search is subjectively getting worse (albeit still insanely profitable). Google Cloud market share is nowhere near AWS or Azure. The whole company feels like it’s frozen in time.

cma 4y ago
> Google Research produces the seminal paper on Transformers - only to see others pick up their work and run with it. Is the take away that they should have hidden it, or just that they should have come up with ChatGPT first? Would the researchers who came up with it have worked there in the first place if they weren't allowed to publish? There are lots of copyright issues up in the air and going through courts now with generative models that Microsoft is able to presumably insulate from by delegating to an under-capitalized (relative to potential liability) startup. Especially if lots of their investment into that startup is non-transferable Chuckee Cheese tokens (Azure credits) that disappear as a liability to MS in an OpenAI bankruptcy.