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Google's True Moonshot

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Re: Google's True Moonshot

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Post by resolutebat »

andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Google no longer seems relevant to anything much apart from what it’s already doing well… YouTube, search, android, maps.

Can you provide some context about why this is relevant to the article, which posits that Google is uniquely positioned to win the AI space and hence the future of computing?

The potential payoff, though, is astronomical: a world with Pixie everywhere means a world where Google makes real money from selling hardware, in addition to services for enterprises and schools, and cloud services that leverage Google’s infrastructure to provide the same capabilities to businesses. Moreover, it’s a world where Google is truly integrated: the company already makes the chips, in both its phones and its data centers, it makes the models, and it does it all with the largest collection of data in the world.

Re: Google's True Moonshot

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Post by andrewstuart »

resolutebat wrote: post #5
andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Google no longer seems relevant to anything much apart from what it’s already doing well… YouTube, search, android, maps.

Can you provide some context about why this is relevant to the article, which posits that Google is uniquely positioned to win the AI space and hence the future of computing? The potential payoff, though, is astronomical: a world with Pixie everywhere means a world where Google makes real money from selling hardware, in addition to services for enterprises and schools, and cloud services that leverage Google’s infras…

Because Google has burned it’s good will by cancelling so many projects.

Yet another new Google project is simply met with “ok, but when will it be canceled”.

Re: Google's True Moonshot

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Post by geodel »

riku_iki wrote: post #4
andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Google no longer seems relevant to anything much apart from what it’s already doing well… YouTube, search, android, maps.

> it’s already doing well > search many people disagree..

It needs to be at least many hundred million disagree to matter.

Re: Google's True Moonshot

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Post by somenameforme »

tnecniv wrote: post #3
andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Google no longer seems relevant to anything much apart from what it’s already doing well… YouTube, search, android, maps.

Waymo?

Way too early IMO. Think about something like Google Fiber. It looked extremely promising, but the inability (or lack of desire) to expand it left it as mostly irrelevant. With Waymo they also have some major issues to work out as they're bleeding billions while charging as much, if not more, as human driven cars charge. It might end up getting worked out in the future and turned into something neat, or it might just eventually find itself on the ever-growing scrap-heap.

Re: Google's True Moonshot

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

resolutebat wrote: post #5
andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Google no longer seems relevant to anything much apart from what it’s already doing well… YouTube, search, android, maps.

Can you provide some context about why this is relevant to the article, which posits that Google is uniquely positioned to win the AI space and hence the future of computing? The potential payoff, though, is astronomical: a world with Pixie everywhere means a world where Google makes real money from selling hardware, in addition to services for enterprises and schools, and cloud services that leverage Google’s infras…

But it doesn't seem to be true - there's more of a moat around search than AI it seems, and the recent trend is people replacing the Google search app on their phones with Perplexity.ai.

You currently still need search too, for AI's to access data newer than their training set, but I wonder how that's going to evolve over time ... Could see AI's being updated increasingly frequently and tapping direct into news sources (not via search) for news/sports/etc.

Re: Google's True Moonshot

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Post by ShamelessC »

somenameforme wrote: post #8
tnecniv wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Waymo?

Way too early IMO. Think about something like Google Fiber. It looked extremely promising, but the inability (or lack of desire) to expand it left it as mostly irrelevant. With Waymo they also have some major issues to work out as they're bleeding billions while charging as much, if not more, as human driven cars charge. It might end up getting worked out in the future and turned into something neat, or it might just…

aghem, Stadia, aghem
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