[andreilys]

“they have very limited capabilities and consumers will accept pretty poor performance”*

The limited capabilities is a stretch... if you showed a google home to someone in 1980s they would be absolutely floored.

” Do you have any examples of domains where a FAANG has operationalized AI/ML outside of consumer products?”

Operations and supply chain is a pretty obvious one. Amazon is clearly leading the pack here.

[baja_blast]

> if you showed a google home to someone in 1980s they would be absolutely floored.

I am not so sure about that. If you came from a time machine and said "This is an AI from the year 2020", they would try and converse with it and quickly realize it's unable to converse. People from the 80's would probably assume by the year 2020 they'd have sentient robots and be disappointed when all it can do is turn on the lights when asked a specific way.

[mellavora]

additional support: Wallmart became dominant because it was one of the first companies to computerize their supply chain management.