Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation While Firing Thousands

Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation Whil... by autonomousErwin on Saturday April 22, 2023 @09:13AM (#35666287)

I've heard this countless times as well and I wonder if the root cause comes from Google's inability to turn its research into practical applications.

Case in point, 2017 Google Brain released the "Attention Is All You Need" paper however haven't done anything proactively to deliver it to mass users like OpenAI have done (among others) - perhaps this is the kick that Google needs to remind them that research alone isn't enough, it needs practical applications and the question could be whether Pichai is the right CEO to deliver that

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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation Whil... by DSingularity on Sunday April 23, 2023 @12:37AM (#35673306)

TBH no I don’t think that’s the case. I think they are actually approaching this space with care. Whether it’s social media, search, or ChatGPT there is an obvious human-race scale impact that I believe google recognizes that the “disrupters” disregard.

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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation Whil... by justinclift on Sunday April 23, 2023 @05:09AM (#35674637)

> human-race scale impact that I believe google recognizes

Not sure I buy that.

They're clearly ignoring the already existing human-race scale negative impact of their do-anything-to-capture-peoples-attention advertising business.

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