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Is anyone still running the old shunkworks departments to launch new ideas/technologies? A small group off the side left to do there own thing seems like it cou

• SoftTalker 3y ago
  I guess the old Bell Labs or Xerox PARC are the examples that most people here might be familiar with. But just because it sometimes works well doesn't mean it always does, or even usually does. It's a risk; a lot of academic research doesn't produce anything very practical, and the same is probably true with corporate research, only in the corporate case there are a lot more people expecting a return on their investments.
  • rnk 3y ago
    Can we spin a story about Google and their failing to take advantage of AI opportunities, open AI plus Microsoft coming up crush them in search? Apparently Google hasn't really tried that hard to commercialize their AI stuff and they had worries that it would tell lies and talk about uncomfortable things like say Nazis. So Google fudged their future kind of like Xerox... and this could be what finally seriously hurts them.