Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end

Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by shubhamkrm on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:45PM (#34142742)

> What was last major innovation at Google.. chrome? 20% of company drives profits while 80% is a decorated R&D lab chock full of benefits, upset about cutbacks in their free oatmilk lattes, even though they're not coming to office anyway.

Transformers were invented at Google, which is the underlying tech on which GPT is built. I would say that counts as innovation.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(machine_learnin...

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Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by birdymcbird on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:38PM (#34143163)

This misses the point.

Google has done interesting stuff. Ideas, research papers, R&D in AI, cloud gaming, leading in all kinds of niches… Google Docs with real time collab editing for example.

But can experiment all day and come up with all kinds of cool stuff but at end of day you need to monetize and make money.

To make money, Google depends entirely on X and unless they quickly course correct, they risk massive disruption to their biz.

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