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spwa4yesterday at 2:56 PM1 replyview on HN

... for the management of Google that is so eager to present AI results that Prabhakar Raghavan proudly reported to a press crowd telling his daughter about James Webb photographing a planet outside the solar system. This is generally accepted as having resulted in a 10% drop in the Google stock price over 2 days.

(the key being this never happened, and won't ever happen: the James Webb telescope doesn't have even 1/1000th of the resolution necessary to resolve an extraterrestrial planet)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-of...

https://www.wired.com/story/google-openai-gemini-chatgpt-art...

https://www.popsci.com/technology/google-ai-in-paris/

I wish I could say this only happened once.


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icepushtoday at 5:07 AM

It dropped 10% ... but then it got better

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