alt Hacker NewsGoogle are really firing on all cylinders recently. It's almost shocking to read all they've done in the last year.
The fact they caught up with OpenAI you almost expect. But the Nobel winning contributions to quantum computing, the advances in healthcare and medicine, the cutting edge AI hardware, and the best in class weather models go way beyond what you might have expected. Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
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>Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
Ads are 75% of their revenue and search has been getting progressively worse.
> Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
They are effectively this. With huge margins that allow them to have side projects.
Hot take: they have always been firing on all cylinders. The marketing it just a bit different now. Everything you mention is the result of significant long-term investments.
Meanwhile the economy is tanking. But yeah what a fantastic year it is to be a company worth trillions.
Caught up...??? I do use gemini pro regularly but never for code. chatGPT wins all the time. I even use chatGPT to review gemini suggestions...
Seems that there has been a lot of hype because in many ways, they are still lagging behind.
>> Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
Please tell me this humor...
>Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
They kind of are though?
Like, there is indeed amazing research supported by the company. The core user facing products are really declining in quality by being user hostile.
A search right now results in a made up LLM output followed by 4 ads disguised as content, and then maybe followed by the wanted result.
I’m not sure what happens inside the company for those two things to be true at once.