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I don't think it's that well known, and for an advertising company, Google's marketing department doesn't seem very good. For instance, Google translate has bee
by zamnos 4y ago
I don't think it's that well known, and for an advertising company, Google's marketing department doesn't seem very good. For instance, Google translate has been an ML model for more than a decade. They dropped a bunch of hand written code and replaced it with a model. The Google home assistants use an ML model to do their speech to text transcription. Google's tensor hardware is world class for ML research. But all people say is that Google search sucks now and wah they killed off Reader/Stadia/etc. Transformers will possibly have a bigger effect on society than Google search did and I'm doubtful Google will get proper recognition for that outside of circles like ours.
- kccqzy 4y ago> Transformers will possibly have a bigger effect on society than Google search did and I'm doubtful Google will get proper recognition for that outside of circles like ours. Do you think the general public gives Xerox PARC a lot of credit for modern computing? I don't think so, and it's fine. It will just be well known among technology enthusiasts and historians of technology.
- zamnos 4y agoIt actually does bother me when people refer to Xerox as a failed photocopy machine company without acknowledging PARC, but I'm aware I'm in the minority here. I also think The Dream Machine should be required reading in a history class in all CS curriculum, but I'm not in academia. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/722412 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/722412