Leaked Google Memo Shows Aimless Execs Basically Worshiping AI

[rntn]

https://futurism.com/the-byte/leaked-google-memo-ai

[ukuina]

Pointless article.

> Per the companywide "objective key results" for the new year shared on Thursday, delivering the "world's most advanced, safe, and responsible AI" is Google's number one priority, according to the leak.

Okay, that's... a necessary step to stay competitive.

Then the article pulls together other recent news stories like layoffs and jumps to the headline conclusion.

[danpalmer → ukuina]

Also how specific do they think a company wide OKR for Google is ever going to be?

[mediumsmart]

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is as far as I got in the article.

[ChrisArchitect]

[Dupe] misleading again

Lots of discussion a week ago:

Google has no visionary leaders and a pervasive sense of nihilism

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082599

Some more a few days ago:

A Leaked Memo from Google CEO Sundar Pichai Comes Amidst Employee Discontent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125467

[simonblack]

AI is the current "IN" fad.

There will be something else coming along soon as the next fad.

Remember "Gateways", "Portals", "Push", "P2P", "Fuzzy Logic", etc, etc??? Those were all fads in their day. AI will be the same and fade away into the background.

[ukuina → simonblack]

To be fair, most of those things ended up becoming core infrastructure over the ensuing decades, but hype is always frontloaded.

[hcarvalhoalves]

Next AI winter in 4 years.

[carlmr → hcarvalhoalves]

I'd say earlier. People don't talk that much about AI in my friends circle anymore.

[ithkuil → carlmr]

Absence of hype != winter

Absence of new breakthroughs for a few months != winter

Absence of progress for a long time == winter