Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI”

Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by nmfisher on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:57PM (#35824095)

I mean...isn't that just a smartphone?

I know exactly what you're talking about because my father-in-law had the same thing. I'm just very skeptical that specialist hardware will overtake general commoditized computing devices for mass-market usage. The economics alone make it unlikely.

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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by rvnx on Friday May 05, 2023 @01:39AM (#35825577)

Yes, usually they are locked-down Android devices.

One of them has an unlimited "free forever" internet subscription so it can fetch network translations online if the local dictionary doesn't have the word.

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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by ben_w on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:09AM (#35826912)

Even though Word Lens was first released over 12 ago, I keep surprising people[0] by showing them the same technology built into Google Translate.

[0] even other tech developers who, like me, migrated somewhere where a language barrier came up

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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by throwaway2037 on Friday May 05, 2023 @08:40AM (#35828461)

Yes, that is because Google bought the technology from Word Lens in 2015.

Wiki says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ot%C3%A1vio_Good

    To develop Word Lens, Otávio Good founded Quest Visual Inc., which was acquired by Google, Inc. in 2014, leading to the incorporation of the Word Lens feature into the Google Translate app in 2015.

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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by ben_w on Friday May 05, 2023 @12:00PM (#35831081)

I think you misunderstand.

The people I show it to are surprised that it's possible in 2023, even though it was demoed at the end of 2010.

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