Why would Google announce a software release, without releasing it? There are many answers to that question, but "because it works as advertised" is not one of them.<p>I didn't even bother reading their announcement once I saw an HN comment pointing out that nobody can use the thing yet.<p>It's an LLM. If it works like they say, let me talk to it and see for myself. Otherwise, it's pretty obvious why they don't want me to do that...
How does Sundar Pichai still have a job? Isn’t he ultimately accountable for turning Google’s state of the art AI research into multiple bungled attempts at commercialization?
The marketing pages, the whole pitch was that we have a native grounds up multi modal that processes multi modal inputs as a whole unlike other approaches where multiple different models of different modalities are stiched together.<p>With all that emphasized, the duck demo was jaw dropping. It felt like now computer systems really have eyes and ears. A computer system is responding and commenting on what it is seeing. That's just really really revolutionary.<p>But then... the fine print somewhere.<p>Which should have been first slide on the video in bold headings staying for a few seconds.
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In the other thread I found out about chat.google.com, what a product. Growing up I looked up on google products, their simplicity, efficiency and engineering seemed amazing and I strive for those qualities in my software. Google Chat has none of these qualities, it's slow (really slow), complicated and buggy. What's happening to Google?
More discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582</a>