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it in't about taking eyes off the ball, it is about playing very different ball - they de-facto became commercial entity with short term plans/goals/targets/met
by trhway 11mo ago
it in't about taking eyes off the ball, it is about playing very different ball - they de-facto became commercial entity with short term plans/goals/targets/metrics and all the management games creeping in. Beating Google, such a large company who has been successfully playing that game for quarter of century is very hard, if not impossible until Google would make serious error itself.
And pure tech-wise - they seem to have went all-in on corp management understandable way of doing things - hardware(money) scaling which, while unavoidable in this game, must be accompanied by theoretic-algorithmic improvements as pure hardware scale game is again where Google is hardly beatable.
- tjwebbnorfolk 11mo agoGoogle definitely made errors, but it looks like it got them out of its system early in the game. They've been killing it since the summer.
- vessenes 11mo agoThe moment you knew they were serious was when they pulled Jeff Dean in and paired him with Demis. That was, I imagine, a very expensive move to make internally, (rumors are Dean had wanted to retire / move on), and Demis had nearly unilateral control of his corner of the AI universe at Google for roughly a decade. We're seeing the results of that move right now.