People forget this, but Google leadership were the first people to invent AI doomerism, before even Dario
Linas Beliūnas (@linasbeliunas)
Jeff Dean explaining Google built a ChatGPT-style chatbot roughly a year before OpenAI released theirs.
Tens of thousands of Google employees were already using it and loved it.
Leadership still killed any public launch because:
• “What if people stop searching on Google?”
• “What if it says inaccurate or ‘bad’ things?”
Google invented the Transformer architecture, and still threw away the first-mover advantage for nothing.
Innovator's Dilemma at its finest.
Video
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