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The thing that I don’t understand is that google had every advantage in this AI race. They have the largest amount of training data than anyone. Not just intern
by nirav72 4y ago
The thing that I don’t understand is that google had every advantage in this AI race. They have the largest amount of training data than anyone. Not just internet data. But also geospatial data, video, images and books. Among other collected data. Including a huge lead and deep pockets for research. Yet, somehow they got caught off guard.
- cowthulhu 4y agoThat’s what kills me about this. They’re like, the kings of data - they’ve got (arguably) the best web scraper, as well as tons and tons of compute and consumer data. And some company famous for making a DOTA bot beat them to the punch by a huge margin? That’s pretty pathetic IMHO.
- techmba 4y agoi assume googlers are busy estimating golfballs, answering trick sql questions, and asking each other DEI questions all day. Their PM interviews seem to imply that. Ive never seen a company with that many people resting and vesting ever. I have friends who are PMO at google… they have to waste time with each groups bs processes and management overheard in order to move anything along. that company needs a massive purge and focus towards execution. hopefully they can sundar and that cfo. google is a shell of what it once was.
- gniv 4y agoExecs were too conservative and didn't realize the potential. They had a chatbot years ago but didn't release it. See for example this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-years-ago-execs-shut-down-report-2023-3?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-ye... (Noam Shazeer is one of the authors of the Transformer paper.)