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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation Whil... by _rm on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:06PM (#35667950)
He's done great good: for himself, stuffing his wallet. He's played the game well, squirrelling his way to the top, and siphoning off his fill.

For all the Alphabet stuff, and hiring the smartest engineers on the planet, I've yet to hear of a single Google breakthrough beyond their search. They're still just ad salesmen.

Only other useful things they've done that most people would be aware of is refining Microsoft's email/office software into the SaaS age, and making a popular map app. That's great, but no breakthrough.

Now OpenAI's going to kneecap them. Who searches for lists of potential sources of answers when ChatGPT just gives you them? They're fucked.

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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation Whil... by abraxas on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:24PM (#35668153)
The so coveted Transformer architecture came out of Google for one...

I don't like what Google has become but I can't deny them the amazing work that both DeepMind and Google Brain have done over the years.

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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation Whil... by log_n on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:30PM (#35669554)
Yes they have done great work and discovered some really cool stuff, but they have not been able to commercialize it. That's what a CEO/management chain should ultimately be measured by, not whether they've built a great Xerox style research PARC.
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