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I really love Deep Mind, its genuinely focused on using AI to make the world a better place.
by asxndu 25d ago
I really love Deep Mind, its genuinely focused on using AI to make the world a better place.
- sssilver 25d agoBe careful when loving shareholder-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.
- mdp2021 25d agoIt's "shareholder-linked" (probably not "driven"), but yes, upvoted. Nonetheless, even when with grave faults in the path, Google has managed to give us marvellous, paramount free resources (Google Street, Google Museum...), and would have given more (Google Books - if the negotiation had succeeded). I am grateful.
- boelboel 25d agoGoogle Streetview/maps isn't even the best mapping/'streetview' tool at this point. Filled with ads and bugs, some major bugs have been there for 10+ years.
- minimeow 25d agoNow I'm curious. What is the better mapping and streetview tool at this point?
- lorepieri 25d agoOrganic Maps for maps
- boelboel 25d agoFor maps there's quite a few, just anything that doesn't have the amount of ads beats it. For Streetview apple lookaround is a better experience if it's mapped well in your area. I believe Google has been trying to improve their Streetview in coverage as apple has become a concurrent, but it still has the same bugs people have been complaining about for years (like going backward when pressing forward type of bad). If I remember correctly the bugs have been 'closed' or something before just to include it in the same slightly different way.
- jezzamon 25d agoAs someone that just started working on Google Street View, do you links to any of those bugs? Curious to take a look and see what those problems are
- shevy-java 25d agoWhy would you be grateful? I don't think any of that should be under private control to begin with.
- mdp2021 25d agoAnd which public enterprise has undertaken those projects? Looking at current hot problems, and exemplary of the situation: which public entities have endeavoured to backup the most important channels and videos from YouTube, the current historic video archive? Why would I be grateful?! Because somebody did create those resources and made them available! And they did to common good (if anybody refused the expression "for" common good).
- panarky 25d agoBe careful when loving government/philanthropy/ngo-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.
- dgellow 25d agoNo AI company is doing that. There is some benefits but that’s not what any AI for profit will ever focus upon
- heaney-555 25d agoDeepMind objectively is doing that. The world is not so black and white as "evil profit-hungry corporations will never do anything good".
- dgellow 25d agoI preemptively acknowledged that in my comment…
- surgical_fire 25d agoIf Google does anything good for the world it is entirely accidental, and I am certain they will correct this mistake later.
- godwinson__4-8 25d agoMarket reward is the best proxy for good we have. What's your alternative? Executive fiat? Mob rule? Deepmind is objectively good. These endeavors would always cost money. Better private capital than state, no one has to give Google anything. The state is not so generous.
- almostdeadguy 25d agoMob rule, aka Democracy.
- godwinson__4-8 25d agoNot what democracy is. Every single serious theorist of democracy has recognized this. Democracy is about rule of law and institutions, not simply the mob. Tyranny of the majority is the paramount concern of all democracies. Nevertheless, institutions can fail. The idea that democracy always leads to desirable outcomes is evidently false by historical record. I just don't understand people who think the state is better than Google. Google pretty much works. Google does not have police powers. Google cant surround your car and point guns at your family. Most of the bad things about Google are actually forced upon them by the state. Who could have even a passing knowledge of history and think states are somehow safer than corporations? Take the United States. Should Donald Trump get a say in how to run Google? Maybe you like him, so how about the guy that comes after him, or the next one after that? The American mob seems intent on leading their country into the gutter. Good thing (despite what the mob has thrown at it) that the United States still has strong institutions and strong markets. Without Silicon Valley, America would have already lost its place on the world stage. But please lets hear more indictments from a population who can't even agree with itself on the issues already under the government's purview. Now let's set a precedent for even more state interference in the market, that way when your party (whatever side you are on) chokes the next future election away the next nut you don't agree with has even more power? Is that your plan?