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0 pointshipadev232y ago0 comments

Google hasn’t innovated on anything in over a decade. Just continuing to ride that search monopoly. Entire company of rest and vesters.

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moomin2y ago

Except, as pointed out, a lot of the tech was literally developed at Google. It’s like Xerox Labs all over again.

next_xibalba2y ago

They literally invented transformers, one of the key innovations that enabled this LLM boom.

hipadev23OP2y ago

Google didn't invent shit, the following people did. None are still with Google.

* Ashish Vaswani - Founder, Stealth Startup

* Noam Shazeer - Founder, Character.AI

* Niki Parmar - Founder, Stealth Startup

* Jakob Uszkoreit - Founder, Inceptive

* Llion Jones - Founder, Sakana AI

* Aidan Gomez - Founder, cohere

* Lukasz Kaiser - OpenAI

* Illia Polosukhin - Founder, NEAR

crazygringo2y ago

Then by your logic no company ever invents anything.

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basiccalendar742y ago

if the same invention happened at a university, no one would say MIT/Stanford invented transformer. We credit the people involved. Somehow, if it happens at a company, company gets most of the credit. Even when the papers and authors are publicly available. this is different from say iPhone which probably would not be developed at a university.

goalonetwo2y ago

"researched" it, yes. But they are completely unable to operationalize it.

crazygringo2y ago

I used Google Bard today.

Is that somehow not operationalized?

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