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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.
You forgot the metaverse, it was totally going to be the futuretm!
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.
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.
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). I am now paying for Kagi because I prefer to be the customer and not the product.
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 suddenly dead.
Spending $100 billion on AI is insane, even with Google Money.
Wasn’t the open ai fucktard planning on raising a trillion for ai hardware?
He’s a grifter from way back, still is
VC’s dont know about this one trick
Its comical
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.
Honestly it’s the same for me, I’m still figuring out the real hard use case for ai apart from writing journals
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.
Someone is making money, all their spending must go somewhere.
Mostly Nvidia I guess.
During the gold rush, shovel manufacturers had a steady income.
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!
Do any of them? I mean beyond glorified search and summarization?
