Tech leaders from this era will not be remembered well.
Big difference between owners like Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk vs. Sundar Pichai.
Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech
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#173Regardless of the details of this speech, I believe Sundar Pichai is uncommonly out of touch with reality and with the nation of the United States of America, even among tech CEOs. He should step down.
Counterpoint, he is Google top CEO by stock percentage gain and possibly by management. Pichai successfully focused (can't say "pivoted" to AI because they've long been a/the leader) Google on AI (compare to Microsoft) and streamlined many of Google's redundant/fruitless efforts.
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#174Seems this has more to do with Palestine and Google's involvement with Israel to provide cloud computing.
In this seemingly forever argument, it seems there is some nuance in that Palestine is not Hamas and vice versa. One of the perspectives as I understand it is that Hamas is actually a threat to the existence of Palestine; the militaristic behaviour undermines Palestinian efforts at independence (and this is an avenue for exploitation by those who don't want to see an independent Palestine). It is a similar situation…
> it seems there is some nuance in that Palestine is not Hamas and vice versa
That's like saying the Nazis were not Germany and vice versa.
That is technically correct.
Hamas governs Palestine (to be precise, Gaza).
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Yes Indigenous Americans should get their stolen land back. That’s a well established movement.
A well established movement pushed by people who are first in the line to get the land, as opposed to the people they took that land from.
It doesn't take long to come to the realization that everyone everywhere is on "stolen land".
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#178Regardless of the details of this speech, I believe Sundar Pichai is uncommonly out of touch with reality and with the nation of the United States of America, even among tech CEOs. He should step down.
Counterpoint, he is Google top CEO by stock percentage gain and possibly by management. Pichai successfully focused (can't say "pivoted" to AI because they've long been a/the leader) Google on AI (compare to Microsoft) and streamlined many of Google's redundant/fruitless efforts.
If he was so good why did Brin have to come out of retirement to steer the ship?
Remember, transformers were invented at Google. They could have been the first to market starving out OAI and Anthropic. That they did not is clearly a huge failure from Pichai. Its astonishing he wasn’t removed for this blunder.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder which spectrum Steve Jobs would be on if he was still alive to this day.
Hate him or not, Steve Jobs understood humans. He spoke and behaved as a human. He was flawed and may be considered "cringey" now, but I think he'd be liked better than the rest.
His Apple keynotes conveyed a sense of magic, for example demonstrating pinch to zoom on the iPhone and pulling a MacBook Air out of a manila envelope. And something he'd be angry because things didn't go as planned.
These pre-recorded keynotes we get nowadays are just bland and AI-generated.
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#180I wonder what percentage of total graduates walked out? The video shows maybe around 50 people at all. The title makes it seem like everyone graduating walked out.
Which part of the title indicates that everyone walked out? I assumed it was merely some of the cohort.
"Pentagon leaders disagree with DoD budget cuts."
Technically, that just means at least two people at the Pentagon who qualify as leaders disagreed.
But it seems like broad opinion.