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
#2This is not only Google. Most of the big and medium tech companies CEOs have been about as gullible and delusional as the crypto-bros of 2k18.
And now, as all the FOMO-driven AI integrations are starting to bear fruits, it seems that we're going to enter a chapter of unprecedented bullshit and disappointment in the history of personal computers.
Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
#3This is not only Google. Most of the big and medium tech companies CEOs have been about as gullible and delusional as the crypto-bros of 2k18. And now, as all the FOMO-driven AI integrations are starting to bear fruits, it seems that we're going to enter a chapter of unprecedented bullshit and disappointment in the history of personal computers.
Brother eughh...
Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
#4This is not only Google. Most of the big and medium tech companies CEOs have been about as gullible and delusional as the crypto-bros of 2k18. And now, as all the FOMO-driven AI integrations are starting to bear fruits, it seems that we're going to enter a chapter of unprecedented bullshit and disappointment in the history of personal computers.
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Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
#5This is not only Google. Most of the big and medium tech companies CEOs have been about as gullible and delusional as the crypto-bros of 2k18. And now, as all the FOMO-driven AI integrations are starting to bear fruits, it seems that we're going to enter a chapter of unprecedented bullshit and disappointment in the history of personal computers.
That’s good. As the big companies have proven themselves inefficient capital allocators, there will be more space for upstarts.
Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
#6At the other end of the spectrum there's Microsoft's marketing dominated approach, which is busy renaming everything they own into some variant of Copilot.
Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
#7Companies like this hire 10s or 100s hundreds of thousands ppl who represent infinite amount of opinions, so Id take it with grain of salt.
You can find a lot of ppl in companies like that who arent up to date with mission, marketing or strategy and theres nothing very wrong with that
Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
#8This is not only Google. Most of the big and medium tech companies CEOs have been about as gullible and delusional as the crypto-bros of 2k18. And now, as all the FOMO-driven AI integrations are starting to bear fruits, it seems that we're going to enter a chapter of unprecedented bullshit and disappointment in the history of personal computers.
That’s good. As the big companies have proven themselves inefficient capital allocators, there will be more space for upstarts.
Will there, though? Or will it just to be those big companies with important, entrenched products making them worse and worse and due to some combination of network effects, entrenchedness in industry, and financial/technical lock-in people will be unable to choose a competitor?
History seems to point to the latter.
Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
#9Many companies are trying to find new growth to satisfy their shareholders. We all understand that growing growth is unsustainable, but that doesn't matter, they just 'have to'.
VR and Crypto/Blockchain didn't pan out, so now the new hotness is AI. There is an opportunity to make something useful out of AI that people want to pay for, in order to keep shareholders happy.
AI is especially interesting for shareholders as it allows you to cut down on labour cost for certain professions. It's an almost ideal tool for creating shareholder value.
Yet, I think the hype will come crashing down eventually. Because we know that it's all statistics and no actual reasoning. Cool that your service now has new AI features that tells me things, but why would I believe any of it?
Meanwhile, I'm pondering what the next hype will be. Not VR for sure. 'Normal' people don't want to wear heavy stuff on their head messing up their hair. Fun for games but let's be real.
But I have absolutely no sense of direction where things are headed, if there even is such notion. What I do observe is that society is more diverging between the haves and the have-nots.
Re: Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
#10> Google's goal, according to Jenson, is to create a Jarvis-like assistant that keeps users locked into Google's ecosystem. The company is driven by the fear that someone else might get there first...
> ...Apple is pursuing a similar AI lock-in strategy with Siri, Jenson believes.
I remember when Microsoft got sued for including a web browser in Windows. Oh how anti-trust has fallen.