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OkTeaching8737 t1_jedxh1f wrote

Reply to comment by Decent-Can378 in A top AI researcher reportedly left Google for OpenAI after sharing concerns the company was training Bard on ChatGPT data by jack_lafouine

Yea Google was caught off guard…but I feel it’s way to early to tell how this will play out. Googles been conservative from the beginning with AI for very good reasons this is very new almost bleeding edge technology, there is law still to be written on it, public hype is great and all but how long will the chatGPT hype last. How long before bad decisions, made on bad info from generative AI shift perceptions against how reliable these tools are. A big part of googles brand is reliability, quality, and accuracy as well as innovation. Microsoft doesn’t have much to lose by going fast and breaking things, in fact they very much have too otherwise Google would continue dominating the AI space.

If you look at how Google actually uses AI, not just one bad demo with Bard that was literally rolled out last minute, they have a deeply future focused approach. They haven’t lost much ground yet and their is no reason they need to chuck their current playbook out the window. The best thing would be to let chatGPT take most of the focus, learn from their pitfalls, and continue making progress in the background while still staying relevant. Which is pretty much what they’re doing.

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SatansHRManager t1_jedxb2j wrote

Reply to comment by Epyr in CEOs are quietly backtracking on remote work—and more companies could follow by ethereal3xp

Opposite is true: People moved to small towns and exurbs BECAUSE they could work from home permanently.

Forcing them to commute again will lead some of those people to move back from those small towns and exurbs (i.e. more flight) and force the ones that don't want to uproot their families twice in three years for one company to find other jobs.

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Uzza2 t1_jedwsr6 wrote

Reply to comment by AnnexBlaster in Virgin Orbit fails to secure funding, will cease operations and lay off nearly entire workforce by getBusyChild

While Rocketlab is doing impressive stuff in the small launch market, and is actually trying to be competitive in the future with Neutron, I don't see how they can be called the best space company when SpaceX exists.
There exists basically no real competitors to what SpaceX is doing right now, and the work they've done on reusability in the past 10 years has done more to advance spaceflight than anyone else the past 40 years.
Starship is going to be an even bigger jump, and I don't think people realize just how big of an impact it is going to have.

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OkTeaching8737 t1_jedveo6 wrote

Reply to comment by Decent-Can378 in A top AI researcher reportedly left Google for OpenAI after sharing concerns the company was training Bard on ChatGPT data by jack_lafouine

Google has been making innovations tho, it’s just in the AI space Google has been very conservative in public usage/interactions because the ethics, laws, and use in that space is very vague and has huge potential for serious damage to googles brand as well as the future of AI. For example Googles internal use of AI has been very impressive and unique, like RankBrain, BERT, MUM, neural matching, not to mention how AI/ML is leveraged in almost everyone of their projects especially in non-generative spaces like earthquake detection or disease prevention.

ChatGPT has been super cool but rn there’s a lot of hype surrounding it, we’re still very early stages AI development, and who knows how well it will age (especially with how it’s common for chat focused models to output bad info, we haven’t seen the real impact of that and how it will shift perceptions of AI).

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