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vecter7mo ago· 2 in thread

This kind of cynicism is wild to me. Of course most AI products (and products in general) are for end users. Especially for a company like Google--they need to do everything they can to win the AI wars, and that means winning adoption for their AI models.

flipgimble7mo ago

http://killedbygoogle.com/ - most Google products are for the temporary career advancement of some exec or product lead.

Their only real product is advertising, everything else is a pretense to capture users attention and behaviors that they can auction off.

vecter7mo ago

This is different. AI is an existential threat to Google. I've almost stopped using Google entirely since ChatGPT came out. Why search for a list of webpages which might have the answer to your question and then manually read them one at a time when I can instead just ask an AI to tell me the answer?

If Google doesn't adapt, they could easily be dead in a decade.

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jmpeax7mo ago· 1 in thread

Google is still looking for investors?

rajamaka7mo ago

Of course, Alphabet exists to give returns to their shareholders.

rvnx7mo ago

There is also mechanism inside Google that rewards teams that launches new products, more than the teams that actually maintain existing ones.

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