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How can you get excited about a company that’s shipped enough pieces of research you can count them on one hand during the 12 or so years they’ve been telling u
by whywhywhywhy 3y ago
How can you get excited about a company that’s shipped enough pieces of research you can count them on one hand during the 12 or so years they’ve been telling us about their work.
Google can publish whatever research they want, literally doesn’t matter literally changes nothing because they can’t turn it into a product anyone can use and never will.
- ryandvm 3y agoIndeed. These recent AI demos are pretty damn impressive (even knowing there are smoke and mirrors), but it's hard to get excited about what's happening with their R&D when my Google Home device seems to be regressing on a daily basis. It is now basically is only useful for alarms and timers.
- lbeltrame 3y agoPerhaps OT but I see often these comments on HN. How do these devices (I don't own one) lose functionality over time? Features removed through updates?
- pbronez 3y agoYes. The home assistant speakers aren’t making enough money to justify the large teams behind them. Thus we’ve seen significant layoffs on those teams in the past year. BigCos are looking for other ways to reduce costs. Killing features is one way to do it. There have also been situations where a feature is removed because of legal action; lawsuits alleging the features violates a patent. Live updates givith, live updates taketh away!
- smoldesu 3y agoI'm excited because I despise Google's products anyways and would rather use the research myself. Did that with Google's BERT model a few years back to make a particularly clueless Discord bot.
- sjwhevvvvvsj 3y agoHey now, Google is going to use these technologies to fire their own employees to save costs for the next quarterly earnings call! Of course building products for actual users is no longer a “thing”, but think of the stock price.