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Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

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Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

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If you’re worried about the bursting of the AI bubble, then whatever you do, don’t look up “AI winter”. This has all happened before and will happen again.

Do you know when the robot apocalypse is scheduled?

Every 10 years since about 1950.

Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

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Missing on social media was a pretty big error for Google, right?

They... didn't, tho. They failed in their attempts to make a Facebook clone (and a Twitter clone, actually; see Google Buzz), but Youtube was very successful.

Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

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post #40

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That link doesn't say anything like that, what are you taking about. It even mentions that sizable number of companies have negative guidance.

Directly from the linked article: "On average, first quarter 2024 earnings results were solid. Four sectors — Communication Services, Utilities, Consumer Discretionary and Information Technology — generated the strongest earnings growth for the quarter" But that was just a link I came across quickly. You can look at almost any economic statistics you want and see that the economy (at least in the US, you mentioned th…

Average != Median and that is what the commenter above mentioned.

The S&P500 and others don't remove the outliers going to the moon which is good for investors but as a data metric would make for a pretty large deviation.

Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

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I absolutely believe this. The spouse works at a very large multinational working in B2B (exclusive) software. Their AI products have taken years to develop stretching years before the pandemic. Rushing useful AI out the door is a recipe for subpar products/services.

Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

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Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

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post #62

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My totally uninformed outsider view is that Google lacks leadership that can set a direction and follow through with it. They're no longer capable or interested in shaking up the environment like they did with Gmail. I understand that Google is a large mature company now, but they also seem to be uninterested in steady-handed long-term maintenance of a lot of their products either. I don't see any vision in Google's…

As has been said, a company's products end up mirroring its internal org/cooperation structure. By that metric, measured against Google's recent product releases, Google's org/cooperation structure is broken. It's tired to reiterate the 'launch and abandon product for promotion' incentives, but it also seems to go higher up. Individual teams at Google are amazing, and build amazing features, but the company as a whol…

I worked with great developers at Google during my short stint there (part of the Jan 23 layoffs) but the management structure gets so thick and tangled once you get above feature teams.

Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

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post #56

As a software developer, I'm anxious about the AI gold rush being a bubble that's about to pop. I've been unemployed ever since the Great 15% Layoffs, about 14 months ago. I finally landed a job (well, once the paperwork is done) related to bringing up a new processor. But it's a DL accelerator. I really hope there's not another employment bloodbath if/when the AI bubble bursts, since my savings are pretty much deple…

Honestly if you can I would try to find something outside "AI" for now: even if you are doing real deep learning stuff the reality is that 99% of the people investing in AI at the moment can't differentiate obvious bs from real R&D at all, they are here just because of the hype and are throwing millions to anything with an AI tag on it, so when this bubble pops it will be ugly for everybody, indiscriminately. This is…

Unless they find another hype, at least the money will go into doing actual work, so I don't think it will be all bad.
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