Guessing the next word in a sentence because hundreds of millions of examples tell it to isn’t really that amazing.

The best and most concise explanation (and critique) of LLMs in the known universe.

So true. If a Google team cannot show a believable path to a $1 billion ARR business, your team’s project gets shut down. Unless it falls within strategic priorities which are pretty much just search and ads (eg. this is why Android continues to get support - because it represents mobile defense of Google’s lead in search and ads, not because the phone business on its own is worthwhile to Google).

See https://killedbygoogle.com/

FWIW I don’t think this is necessarily a bad way to run a company. Focus resources on your core competencies. But it really sucks as a user of their non-search-related products.

Makes sense. Google dealt with something similar years ago.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533893/update--google-settles-copyright-lawsuits-with-publishers--authors-for--125m.amp.html