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LOL
XML is not verbose if you stick to using primarily attributes instead of elements. Unfortunately, that pattern never had popularity.
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It is well-known that Google had world-class researchers working on AI for a long time now, and that they pioneered a lot of techniques used in the recent AI craze.
I don't think it's that well known, and for an advertising company, Google's marketing department doesn't seem very good. For instance, Google translate has been an ML model for more than a decade. They dropped a bunch of hand written code and replaced it with a model. The Google home assistants use an ML model to do their speech to text transcription. Google's tensor hardware is world class for ML research. But all…
Do you think the general public gives Xerox PARC a lot of credit for modern computing? I don't think so, and it's fine. It will just be well known among technology enthusiasts and historians of technology.
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I had a "OMG, we live in the future!" moment reading this headline, isn't this what computers in sci-fi movies do (ok admittedly there aren't a lot of sci-fi movies where office work is the plot): you ask it to do something like yo would an assistant, and it delivers you the results. Something like "Computer, scan planet for lifeforms" on Star Trek. Maybe someone should build a KITT from Knight Rider using ChatGPT (j…
Knight Rider style: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/gm-pl...
Just waiting for google to have a superior overall AI, but so phenomenally fucking up the product launch that it just fades into obscurity while getting eclipsed by its competitors. Really I can't think of anything more google than that. No idea why shareholders still tolerate their crap.
I don't think it is fair to compare an MBA/Suit/Executive CEO type with risk taking Entrepreneurial/Founder CEO types. They have a completely different mindset and motives. A suit essentially plays a defensive game. He can't take risks. CEO is just a job. The goal is to not ... things up and basically collect a hefty paycheck every year. You become a suit by being highly risk averse and if you take risks and if it do…
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I don't think it's that well known, and for an advertising company, Google's marketing department doesn't seem very good. For instance, Google translate has been an ML model for more than a decade. They dropped a bunch of hand written code and replaced it with a model. The Google home assistants use an ML model to do their speech to text transcription. Google's tensor hardware is world class for ML research. But all…
> Transformers will possibly have a bigger effect on society than Google search did and I'm doubtful Google will get proper recognition for that outside of circles like ours. Do you think the general public gives Xerox PARC a lot of credit for modern computing? I don't think so, and it's fine. It will just be well known among technology enthusiasts and historians of technology.
I also think The Dream Machine should be required reading in a history class in all CS curriculum, but I'm not in academia.