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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by jjeaff on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:41AM (#20074100)
Except with all the various products Google has, search is likely the only one that could stand on its own financially.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by v7p1Qbt1im on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:36AM (#20074623)
That for one. And products like Assistant would become pretty much useless.

Brin and Page always stated that search is not the end goal. A real AI is. If these actions happen, it‘s pretty much guaranteed that China will get there first. We don‘t have the global regulations in place yet to discourage that arms race.

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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by SomeOldThrow on Sunday June 02, 2019 @10:41AM (#20075728)
There’s no indication they are capable of this.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by v7p1Qbt1im on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:02AM (#20081508)
Not yet. But they are doing everything possible to lay the groundwork. As much accurate data as possible, hire all the best AI talent, pioneering work on quantum computing and constantly improving tooling.

2030 to 2040 will be the earliest AGI could happen realistically.

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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by drippingthunder on Sunday June 02, 2019 @11:53AM (#20076190)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by close04 on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:46AM (#20074657)
Feels like Youtube and Maps have a pretty solid foothold given how very few products can compete at that level. I’m not sure how much they rely on data from other Google divisions but even without it I don’t see why they would fare worse than any other map service.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by SomeOldThrow on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:43AM (#20074275)
That’s google’s problem for picking a delicate business model.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by colejohnson66 on Sunday June 02, 2019 @07:54PM (#20079266)
So you’re fine with YouTube failing because Google got broken up?
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by loudtieblahblah on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @09:27PM (#20100754)
Absolutely.
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