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> on both the web and AI any company with tons of money is going to build some stuff thats innovative by virtue of hiring people completely irrelevant to its
by seydor 4y ago
> on both the web and AI
any company with tons of money is going to build some stuff thats innovative by virtue of hiring people completely irrelevant to its core product. FB is a social networking and ads company and it was not particularly innovative at that. It was not a web development house or an AI powerhouse, and it's still not (that's not where it makes its billions).
- rvz 4y ago> any company with tons of money is going to build some stuff thats innovative by virtue of hiring people completely irrelevant to its core product. So by your own goalposts, they DID release innovations then? > FB is a social networking and ads company and it was not particularly innovative at that. I wonder what those psychologists and engineers who worked on the Like button with the team who built the AI that is used from that, to Ads and the social graph would say about the billions of dollars and stock value that it has made for Facebook. Again, you set those exceeding low goalposts for your point. If not even that is an example of an innovation relevant to Facebook's business and made it billions of dollars, then perhaps nothing is.