Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 6 days agoThey’ve actually been doing a lot of innovative research around AI, they just done hype it up like companies that NEED AI to work for their business. Their Alpha fold was revolutionary for gene folding, for example. it’s like 98ish percent accurate for a fraction of the compute time.
Now, as far as their customer products go, yeah, we haven’t seen much lately, but I think their research arm is still doing a lot and they’re publishing a lot of papers.
EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Let me start off by saying I think Google should be broken up. I really don’t like that company. But I and glad that the publicized research that they have done has lead to benefits for humanity. Like they discovered the underlying technology behind GPTs, being transformers back in 2017. And then an extension on that being AlphaFold. I think those applications are great, like some others for the use of AI. I don’t think that using AI to call people criminals and lock them out of their account is a good use of the technology, and then not budging when those people are found innocent (there are many news articles on that topic). Google needs to be broken up and their search made into a public utility.