[light_hue_1]

No comparison against GPT-4V? How embarrassing! Where are they going to submit this? A conference where no one knows about GPT-4V? Ridiculous.

It's getting really awkward seeing these papers from Google. "We're here too! We're totally not woefully behind everyone else in the field!". No model, no reasonable comparisons, just generic bragging.

I'm astounded as an ML researcher how Google can be doing so incredibly badly. They have access to unlimited compute, good people, and great infrastructure. Yet something about their internal culture means they are unable to compete with OpenAI, Facebook, and even the open source community. They constantly brag about how good their models are (even in private) and then every time they deploy anything its performance is pathetic (like Bard and Bard with vision).

You can tell why Google recently totally overhauled the leadership of Google Research/Deep Mind and shut down Google Brain.

[staticman2]

I just tried translating a camera image of a japanese manga page with Chatgpt vs Bard, and Bard greatly outperformed ChatGPT in recognizing the japanese kanji, for what it's worth.

[zarzavat]

Realistically you can’t expect one company to dominate like before. The days of buying up all the researchers and giving them unlimited compute are over. Now that there is more investment, it will mostly be about who is lucky to make discoveries, and who is willing to bend the law enough to get breakthroughs. Google’s status as a large multinational may end up as a disadvantage.

[standardly]

I imagine their AI model isn't off the ground becuase it hasn't integrated with ads yet. They ruined search and youtube for more ad impressions, and likely have the same strategy with AI.

[Geee]

Fundamentally the reason is that they can't make money with it, and AI eats into their search revenue. Search as a business is dead, and AI can't bring in the money.

[biomattr]

Maybe its a conscious choice not to be the most frontier model? Cause its hard to believe they're not capable of being the hare in this race.