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Most companies don't have an unified platform they can build this on. And even if they seem to have superficially, the internal organisation is so splintered th

Most companies don't have an unified platform they can build this on. And even if they seem to have superficially, the internal organisation is so splintered that it'll never happen. Like what's going on inside Google, it's getting stupidly political and infighty. If someone tries to build a comprehensive LLM that touches on gmail, youtube, docs, sheets etc, it's going to be an uphill battle.

Jtsummers 2y ago
And even if they did, there'd be five competing efforts, two would be good or at least decent, four would be deployed (not the best one though), and all would be replaced in three years. None of them would work on-device, all would leak your data into the training set.
- theshrike79 2y ago
  And two of them would be killed within a year and/or renamed/rebranded :)
- matwood 2y ago
  And you forgot, if it was Google they would also all have their own internal chat service.
sakisv 2y ago
They did do that. Back in 2013-2015 or so. It was called Google Now, and it was a bit like magic. It showed you contextual cards based on your upcoming trips/appointments/traveling patterns. E.g. Any tube delays on your way home from work. How early you should leave to catch your flight. This alongside Google Inbox was among the best and most "futuristic" products. I was glad to see today Apple implementing something similar to both of these.
- simonh 2y ago
  But it was a decent new Google product, hence all the past tenses.
  - drcongo 2y ago
    Google Then™
- jbl0ndie 2y ago
  I've always been baffled why those two got canned. They were both really useful.
  - camjohnson26 2y ago
    Canceling Google Inbox was when I started to move off their platform, it was their best product in years and finally got a handle on email chaos, and then they just killed it with no follow up, insane.
- theshrike79 2y ago
  Google Now was actually a great idea, it was the only "social" media I actually understood. No wonder they killed it.
dwaite 2y ago
Nothing compared to the fighting between whether the Office team or the Platform team at Microsoft owned the AI 'client' work, if we were back in the Windows 7 days. There'd be constant sabotage.

Jtsummers 2y ago

And even if they did, there'd be five competing efforts, two would be good or at least decent, four would be deployed (not the best one though), and all would be replaced in three years. None of them would work on-device, all would leak your data into the training set.

theshrike79 2y ago
And two of them would be killed within a year and/or renamed/rebranded :)
matwood 2y ago
And you forgot, if it was Google they would also all have their own internal chat service.

sakisv 2y ago

They did do that. Back in 2013-2015 or so. It was called Google Now, and it was a bit like magic. It showed you contextual cards based on your upcoming trips/appointments/traveling patterns. E.g. Any tube delays on your way home from work. How early you should leave to catch your flight. This alongside Google Inbox was among the best and most "futuristic" products. I was glad to see today Apple implementing something similar to both of these.

simonh 2y ago
But it was a decent new Google product, hence all the past tenses.
- drcongo 2y ago
  Google Then™
jbl0ndie 2y ago
I've always been baffled why those two got canned. They were both really useful.
- camjohnson26 2y ago
  Canceling Google Inbox was when I started to move off their platform, it was their best product in years and finally got a handle on email chaos, and then they just killed it with no follow up, insane.
theshrike79 2y ago
Google Now was actually a great idea, it was the only "social" media I actually understood. No wonder they killed it.

dwaite 2y ago

Nothing compared to the fighting between whether the Office team or the Platform team at Microsoft owned the AI 'client' work, if we were back in the Windows 7 days. There'd be constant sabotage.