How Google Became Cautious of AI and Gave Microsoft an Opening

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Google remains so wary about the potential downsides of AI that it ceded the early-mover advantage to one of its biggest rivals

More than two years ago, a pair of Google researchers started pushing the company to release a chatbot built on technology more powerful than anything else available at the time. The conversational computer program they had developed could confidently debate philosophy and banter about its favorite TV shows, while improvising puns about cows and horses.

The researchers, Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer, told colleagues that chatbots like theirs, supercharged by recent advances in artificial intelligence, would revolutionize the way people searched the internet and interacted with computers, according to people who heard the remarks.

 

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Resistance is futile.

Maybe for once Google wasn't wrong

That seems scary

They made a shitty A.I. that couldn't compete and then said 'Guys, we should be careful and hold off on this new tech!'

Maybe because AI is worth being cautious about and not to be launched into headlong

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And clearly they made the right move. Microsoft’s AI somehow found a way to push people even further away from Bing.

Early mover may not be the advantage we think it is.

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