follow-spy t1_iuajmi3 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:01 PM

Reply to comment by Specialist_Avocado25 in Why did Elon Musk pay 44 Billion for a website? by [deleted]

Google is a search engine with an algorithm and AI capabilities.

LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is Google's system for building chatbots based on its most advanced large language models, so called because it mimics speech by ingesting trillions of words from the internet.

Twitter is a microblogging platform

mediummorning t1_iuao2bm wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:34 PM

Google is an advertising platform. Twitter is an advertising platform.

The features you list are to engage eyeballs to view the ads, and to collect massive amounts of user data to more efficiently deliver the ads. These increase the advertising rates they can charge.

follow-spy t1_iuastr4 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:09 PM

ADS for google is what keeps the lights on.

Former engineer was let go because he released info to public and he said the new AI they have been developing is transient.

Its well known in tech community they are by far the most advanced in AI research

mediummorning t1_iuax3r8 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:43 PM

You mean sentient AI?

Blake Lemoine's claims were dismissed by experts in the field.

Google has good AI research but there are plenty of others. For example, look how many companies have poached or been started by the big brains that kick started google AI. Andrew Ng (Google brain co-founder) or Ian Goodfellow for easy examples.

AI is a field you can buy your way into. Poach smart scientists and buy/rent computing power, then sell your AI product or service. Building a user base is much harder, which is the reason Elon bought Twitter instead of starting new website, to bring this back to original question.

sqweak t1_iuayv8u wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:57 PM

He was right the first time. The AI is homeless.

BurnMuFuggaBurn t1_iuaymue wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:55 PM

Fuckin Homeless robots, eh!? Mother fuckers are taking all the jobs AND the welfare checks!?

They tuk er job¡!!!¡!!!!!@

HighGroundException t1_iuaq2yl wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:49 PM

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTWUOxkfGQ&ab_channel=LoucasFerekides

Specialist_Avocado25 t1_iuarugc wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:02 PM

I think you're paying for the eyeballs. It has a very developed community. Sure, you could create an alternate site and build it up over time, but who knows if you would end up succeeding even if it were a superior product.

stiveooo t1_iuauhid wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:22 PM

the website is worth 0

whats worth is the users