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Genuine question: What is the point of telling us about this if we can’t use it? Is it just to flex on everyone?
by bix6 2y ago
Genuine question: What is the point of telling us about this if we can’t use it? Is it just to flex on everyone?
- mhld 2y agoSome kind of marketing strategy that actually nobody understands
- jazzyjackson 2y agoIt's not that opaque, it's recruitment. Basically same marketing as a univeristy. "We do state of the art research here. If you are a talented researcher who wants to advance the field, you'll want to work here" Now, how Google plans to make money with all this bleeding edge research, that's the mystery.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- tootie 2y agoIt's PR but it's also meant to entice. Let the world know Google is #1 for Gen AI, convince researchers to join Google, convince investors to boost the stock price, make Elon Musk grit his teeth. That kind of thing. In the short term, it may provide a bump in interest for existing AI products from Google.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoThe best minds of a generation went from thinking about how to make people click ads to how to generate 3d video game worlds.
- adventured 2y agoThe best minds were never working on getting people to click on ads. That was an internal industry narrative so people could feel better about themselves.
- fragmede 2y agoseems more like an external narrative so people can feel worse about the world
- Workaccount2 2y agoThe best minds of the generation are on wall street trying to figure out how to quickly spot inefficiently priced options 1% more often. Seriously, I wish more than anything I was kidding.
- mupuff1234 2y agoAn artifact for their promotion packet.
- echelon 2y agoTo stop competing startups from getting funding. Decart (Oasis) raised $25 million at $500 million valuation. World Labs raised $230 million.
- UncleOxidant 2y agoNot sure about that. Sometimes Google legitimates a field. I was in a kite power startup company back in 2019. Before Google canceled it's Makani kite power project VCs and angels would at least talk to us - it gave them some frame of reference: "Oh, this is like the kite power thing Goggle is doing?" "Right, but on a much smaller scale". After they canceled Makani in the summer of 2019 it was crickets. We folded by the end of 2019. They figured if Google couldn't make it work then it probably wasn't something to invest in.
- justlikereddit 2y ago[flagged]
- throwaway2037 2y agoWhy is this downvoted and flagged? I am laughing so hard at the second sentence, that I am on the verge of tears. Nothing has made me laugh so hard in a while. This part really did it for me: > get absorbed into some hype mill startup Wait... isn't that basically YC?
- xnx 2y agoOften to establish that the authors were first in the space for when competitors announce their tech.
- ilaksh 2y agoThey were not though, this is very similar to the one that came out last month. https://arxiv.org/html/2411.00769v1 https://arxiv.org/html/2411.00769v1
- spencerchubb 2y agoResearchers want to publish Recruiting