[fpgaminer]

Yeah, these days I'm "over" Google's AI research. All their papers sound cool, and they've got nice pictures/audio/etc. But nothing meaningful has ever materialized from Google.

OpenAI is killing it with ChatGPT, a publicly accessible product with research papers that have been reproduced. Facebook released huge LLMs for free. Stability released successful image models for free. etc.

Meanwhile Google has ... Tensorflow? Dying. TPUs? Only used by Google themselves or when they're free. Bard? A joke compared to ChatGPT. Imagen? Never released.

Remember when Google said they were going to have an AI call your hair salon and make appointments for you? Yeah...

But hey, at least they've got that golden mountain of PII they harvested from everyone that's been oh so valuable in building new, market defining products... It's not like small companies are running circles around them using publicly available hardware and publicly available data...

And they've still got search, a that product just keeps getting better and more useful by the day...

[esafak]

> Remember when Google said they were going to have an AI call your hair salon and make appointments for you?

I think that ran into social problems, not technical ones.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538194/google-duplex-ai-...