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It’s a little funny how everyone sobered up from perpetually investing in unprofitable free social media then they dove right back in to perpetually investing in LLMs with no real plan for sustainable profit.
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Submitted 7 months ago by Dragxito@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Hypx@fedia.io 7 months ago
It’s why Google is secretly in big trouble. Their biggest and most successful ideas were from well over a decade ago. There’s very little real innovation going on at Google now. They’re just throwing crap at a wall and hoping something sticks. Eventually, their cash cows will dry up and they won’t have anything to fall back on.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
They had so many great innovations over the years, the problem is they kill them off because they somehow can’t figure out how to monetize stuff that people want. It’s like if they can’t get the money from a third party, they’re out of ideas. I would have paid a monthly fee for Google Reader (not much, mind you, but I bet $1/month would have been enough to keep it running).
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Google (Alphabet) makes tens of billions in profit each year and they have plenty of stuff to fall back on, especially if they would stop killing everything they make, the issue is that none of it enables perpetual and exponential growth.
Because it’s not enough to make a boatload of money, you have to make sure next quarter you make two, or somehow your business is dead.SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And they started cannibalizing their main product: search. It now tried to sell tot stuff instead of giving info you want, so users start to stay away.
xep@fedia.io 7 months ago
I love your optimism but I don't think Doubleclick is going anywhere, sadly.
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
You forgot the metaverse, it was totally going to be the future^tm^!
Damage@feddit.it 7 months ago
Someone is making money, all their spending must go somewhere.
Mostly Nvidia I guess.
the_third@feddit.de 7 months ago
During the gold rush, shovel manufacturers had a steady income.
L_Acacia@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Damage@feddit.it 7 months ago
TSMC, Qualcomm or Samsung then
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Interesting development that I didn’t realise they had. 4 trillion operations at 2watts.
tyler@programming.dev 7 months ago
Probably because they’re trying to sell shit with the assistant rather than the assistant be the product. I swear our echos get worse literally every day. No, I don’t ever want to hear “also” or “did you know” after you answered my question, shut up and stop trying to sell me stuff!
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Selling you shit has always been the point for echo/alexa. The device is sold at cost and the assistant is “free” because they’re trying to make money from the other side of the business.
It hasn’t worked at all, by the way. This more aggressive version is a last ditch effort to make it profitable. The only ones who managed to make smart speakers profitable are Apple, but that’s because they charge much more for the device
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Spending $100 billion on AI is insane, even with Google Money.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Wasn’t the open ai fucktard planning on raising a trillion for ai hardware?
Wooki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He’s a grifter from way back, still is
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do any of them? I mean beyond glorified search and summarization?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
The non—ai assistant they used to use does so much more with the same interface. Idk how they fucked it up by making the tts output ai generated but the thing can’t do literally any of the things I used the old assistant for.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months ago
I just want my routines back on Google Assistant, I want to hear my news show in the morning, I want to hear the weather report, I want reminders on my schedule, I don’t use the AI more than I used Assistant.
Dragxito@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Honestly it’s the same for me, I’m still figuring out the real hard use case for ai apart from writing journals
Cikos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
scamming people with air arts and photos. framing your boss with a fake ai voice, make a garbage video script for social media content. the possibilities are endless! \s
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There are quite a few great cases for AI, but all of them need mountains of clean data. Thats always been the challenge and very few are working to solving it. The most successful ones are those that are creating their own data by building out their own expensive sensor networks in controlled spaces. That doesn’t really work for the general AI that everyone wants to do the mundane tasks in their general work tasks or at home.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is it not possible to switch back? I refused the Gemini offer when it appeared.
I was tempted to try it if it appeared again, but I need assistant to perform basic functions more than I need it to have a conversation.