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I am not "asking for evidence of a lack of evidence". I am asking for evidence that the engineers held this arrogant position. There is no "lack of evidence" de

• kortilla 3y ago
  Yes you are. No google product emerged because there was no product vision from the researchers, the execs, the engineers, and any of the PMs who read about it. It would have leaked out if the researchers had some grand product that morons at the top squashed. Google is a massive company and cannot keep a lid on anything like this. There is no evidence that there was anything there as shown by both the lack of rumored products and the lackluster also-ran release of Bard. This type of arrogance is extremely common in any research positions (both academic and industry) because people are trained very early on that it’s not their job to suggest how these things might be useful. Papers are not reviewed for applicability, grants are not based on it, dissertations are not graded on it, and on and on. It’s systematic arrogance trained into researchers by the institutions. Look at Alan Turing and many of the other big names in CS. The same arrogance is in all of their writings, speeches, etc but that’s expected because it’s academia. A researcher’s role in an R&D department at a corporation is not as disconnected as academia, and the researchers should know that.