One of the infuriating things I’ve seen in the industry in a bunch of cases. Folks working on valuable things getting pulled away to work on chatbot. Not even to try to make the chatbot game changing, just to make it more popular.
Also, there was pressure in the industry to “be green”; to be efficient. That is all so far out the window now too…
I hate how LLMs have co-opted the term AI. Google was using AI for this just a different and I’d argue better technique. It’s super frustrating to see other AI approaches be totally discarded just for everyone to put all their chips on LLMs being the ‘right’ approach
They’ve said something to that effect a long time ago. Back when they were first getting into the self diving car game they said that more people die of car accidents than cancer and it was more important to them. They’re number driven, if the numbers say they’ll make more money somewhere else, that’s where they’ll go.
Making money is not mutually exclusive. Google is already bloated with cash (it pays dividends). The are able to invest in both self driving cars and cancer cures at the same time.
Google literally cut their genome project, the project in which AI could help cure cancer, in order to move personnel to Gemini.
They don’t give a fuck about cancer.
One of the infuriating things I’ve seen in the industry in a bunch of cases. Folks working on valuable things getting pulled away to work on chatbot. Not even to try to make the chatbot game changing, just to make it more popular.
Also, there was pressure in the industry to “be green”; to be efficient. That is all so far out the window now too…
Google knows AI will not cure diseases. They have services for pharma for two years now and no one is finding it useful, despite the cost.
That being said, I wouldn’t have complained if they’d left that AI genome project running, just in case
I hate how LLMs have co-opted the term AI. Google was using AI for this just a different and I’d argue better technique. It’s super frustrating to see other AI approaches be totally discarded just for everyone to put all their chips on LLMs being the ‘right’ approach
They’ve said something to that effect a long time ago. Back when they were first getting into the self diving car game they said that more people die of car accidents than cancer and it was more important to them. They’re number driven, if the numbers say they’ll make more money somewhere else, that’s where they’ll go.
Making money is not mutually exclusive. Google is already bloated with cash (it pays dividends). The are able to invest in both self driving cars and cancer cures at the same time.