Re:Google DeepMind
by eigenvalue on Thursday April 20, 2023 @03:01PM
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You could say the same about Xerox in the late 70s. And they conclusively showed that they couldn’t execute and squandered all of their amazing original research. Looking at how laughably bad Bard is, Google has a long way to prove they aren’t Xerox 2.0 at this point. I’m amazed that Sundar hasn’t been pushed out yet by Larry and Sergey.
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This thread is full of people saying that what Xerox did was some terrible mistake, but I think that it was much better that they could afford to do all this research which spawned a massive industry as a result than had they become this massive monopoly which controlled everything.
If Google spends billions of it's ad money doing original research that spawns a new industry with thousands of companies, that would seem to be a great result to me.
Re:Google DeepMind
by eigenvalue on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:10PM
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That might be true on a societal level, but is small solace to XRX shareholders, not to mention the many researchers who contributed these brilliant creations only to see them exploited by others while their own company just ignored them and let them die on the vine.