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Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by derefr »

revelio wrote: post #111
lordswork wrote: post #79

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Which one of these talks from ML/AI at I/O 2022 would you describe as "just corporate talk"? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQY2H8rRoyvyY0AsvPIkb...

Maybe "A journey to protect the Great Barrier Reef using ML"? The video is five minutes long, is basically a nature advert complete with stirring music, has a bizarre cartoon in the middle of it and is all about an attempt to control the reef's population of starfish. We're told that the starfish are doing great thanks to there being fewer predators and more nutrients in the water, but that this is bad because "it's…

> Why are corals better than starfish?

Corals as a habitat host a lot of species, creating biodiversity. People don't really seem to care about corals by themselves; rather, they care about a few hundred species of pretty-looking tropical fish that exist nowhere other than within coral reefs. Anything that kills enough of the coral, is likely to make all of those very pretty fish go extinct.

(I've never heard about starfish as a threat to corals; the wellbeing of coral reefs is usually brought up mostly in relation to the impacts of ocean acidification and seafloor trawling.)

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by krackers »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #206
motoboi wrote: post #204

So funny to see google stressing EVERYTIME that they have been using AI for years. Dude, you were seated in the pot of gold and let your organizational disfuncionality block you from really using that. And now you come trying to get the crown of AI? Catch up and them we can talk.

I mean, Google Translate has been basically completely AI powered for 5+ years, and it's one of the most used products in the world... The majority of what you see on SERPs has been AI generated for a decade, and that's Google's main money maker. This idea that Google sucks at AI and is clearly a million miles behind is intriguing. Google is currently the company everyone loves to hate like MSFT was 5-10 years ago. T…

>and it's one of the most used products in the world...

And they had their lunch completely eaten by deepL

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by nr2x »

r0m4n0 wrote: post #64

I find it interesting the sentiment in the comments... Yesterday we had an Apple post where everyone was losing their minds all day about Final Cut Pro on iPad (which in my opinion as a Software Engineer is the most boring thing I’ve had to read all week). Today we have probably a massive lineup of a bunch of new AI features to be announced for products most of us use on the regular, or could use as devs, and 90% of…

I tuned into the livestream for a minute and they were just demoing things I’ve been using in GPT for months. They’re playing catch-up, it’s boring.

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by secondary_op »

derefr wrote: post #242
secondary_op wrote: post #239

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> "We made next-gen state of the art transparent video translation/dubbing" and "we will let to use this tool only to our hand picked partners". What the fuck ? Because otherwise developers will write bots that generate and upload fake videos, then download the generated captions, in order to use YouTube as a free deep-translation API. (People already proved willing to generate and upload videos in order to use YouTu…

No, you wrong. It is about keeping language barriers, and about preventing people to understand each other more easily. Google could released features like this years ago with TTS from Google Translate, instead they have been doing absolutely nothing for last 10 years.

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Post by actuator »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #231
actuator wrote: post #110

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No one is forced to buy Airpods, but the first class integration that the product gets which others can't gives it a competitive advantage. This is besides the power to push the product through different channels to customers of iPhones, iPads etc. Another example is, no one is forced to buy Apple Music, but for sure it pops up front and center when you buy a iOS device or Mac. In fact, even when I keep removing the…

> Another example is, no one is forced to buy Apple Music, but for sure it pops up front and center when you buy a iOS device or Mac. I never noticed, having never bought Apple Music before and just using spotify instead. I guess if I wanted it to run on a HomePod, I would need it? > On top of this they will give you free subscription for 3/6 months when you buy a new device knowing full well that most customers won'…

Spotify doesn't get to offer you that when you are setting up your new phone. You have to know about the company and go and install it.

It is good that you are using Spotify and supporting an independent company, but as I was saying defaults and ease of access matters. Spotify is not playing in a level field and regulators have failed to ensure that they are able to.

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Post by nr2x »

adql wrote: post #167
jsnell wrote: post #25

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If you pick 10 random sessions from the program[0], I'd think the odds are that you'll end up with like 8-9 technical sessions or workshops. The keynotes of course target a more general audience, but that's always been the case. (E.g. haven't they been announcing consumer hardware during the keynotes basically from the start?). It seems in line with something like the WWDC, which is a developer conference but with a…

> The number of requests sent exceeds the quota limit. lmfao google can't host a fucking static page

https://youtu.be/3t6L-FlfeaI

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Post by smoldesu »

fomine3 wrote: post #226
fallat wrote: post #210

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This is why I stopped calling HN, HN. It's YCombinator news. It's not news for hackers - maybe at one point, but not anymore and not for awhile. It may even be seen as looked down on because you're posting on a site run by venture capitalists.

YC news is still weird for praising Apple

Not really. Every entrepreneur has to worship the Steve Jobs handbook if they want jaded middle-aged Disney investors to open their wallets for $TECH_PRODUCT. It's not uncommon or surprising to see people in the startup sphere who are unnaturally defensive of Apple/iOS/MacOS.

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Post by nr2x »

Cockbrand wrote: post #238

WACHTING THE KNEYOTE AND playng a drinkiig game - 1 shott every tim a spaeker says 'generative AI" but now Icant' drink any more and the kenyote is stil runnig :(

Somebody send help, we’ve got a case of potentially fatal alcohol poisoning.

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Post by PedroBatista »

actuator wrote: post #98
r0m4n0 wrote: post #64

I find it interesting the sentiment in the comments... Yesterday we had an Apple post where everyone was losing their minds all day about Final Cut Pro on iPad (which in my opinion as a Software Engineer is the most boring thing I’ve had to read all week). Today we have probably a massive lineup of a bunch of new AI features to be announced for products most of us use on the regular, or could use as devs, and 90% of…

HN tends to bias towards pro Apple. You would see people doing mental gymnastics trying to defend their closed anti competitive practices, disregard for standards. I would cheer a Sennheiser/Bose more than any version of Airpods, I would rather not have a multi trillion dollar company gobble up other industries through unfair advantages. Seeing a hacker crowd do this is just beyond bizzare.

>HN tends to bias towards pro Apple.

I'm not sure if I agree with that. I think being anti-Google and FB would be more accurate than being pro-Apple.

Also, during the years I've observed the "pro-Apple" gauge changes as the time zones change, ie. it tends to be all-time high when it's noon in California - which is understandable.

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by skinkestek »

Tell me when search works like it did in 2009.

Or if they've brought back Google+ including all the communities I enjoyed.

Oh, BTW, that cookie box on the bottom of the page is very much not compliant.

Opting out should be as trivial as opting in, feel free to ask the YouTube team, they have someone on board who was smart enough to create a compliant solution :-)

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