25% my arse
What a an absolute crock of shit
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that the Department of Justice's proposed remedies for Google's monopolistic behaviour could impact US leadership of the global tech market – after announcing enormous growth in the megalithic firm's ad business. The conglomerate on Tuesday announced [PDF] Q3 2024 revenue of $88.25 billion …
I believe it. gRPC and Protobuf makes an absolute mess of code when there are complex data structures. It uses special calling conventions and special objects that don't align with any language's or framework's native design. 20 to 90 percent of a service can be nothing but conversion efforts.
Google is too proud of gRPC to fix it. I can see them asking AI to write adapters and then patting themselves on the back for being innovative geniuses.
It's easier to say for certain what it doesn't mean - FACT: If no humans were involved in new code or maintenance, there would be 0% new code and maintenance, not 25% of what is produced at present.
As for what it could mean - However, if no genAI were involved, 100% of new code and maintenance could still be achieved - but it would take X% longer. X is not known exactly, but it is certainly less than 25%. To boost that number X you can cherry pick cases ad nauseam.
"One workload from which Google itself is benefiting is code generation: Pichai said a quarter of the Chocolate Factory's new code is now written by machines and then reviewed by humans. "This Helps our engineers do more and move faster," the CEO enthused."
And after they've laid off all their senior engineers and it fails, the CEO won't be so enthused once he realizes all they have left are script kiddies who can't code shit.
" the CEO won't be so enthused once he realizes all they have left are script kiddies who can't code shit."
And biased algorithms from AI-written code could generate unexpectedky inaccurate search results.
How are those script kiddies gonna fix THAT, hmmm?
Informative and provocative article; thanks, Reg.
After reading it, I'm baffled, kind of.
I'm living in a world without Waymobiles. I use Youtube no more than previously; maybe less. I don't see ads, except when traveling and using my phone, if my VPN is off, and I don't buy ads. I have learned not to trust the Google AI summaries, as the contain a lot of misinformation scraped from web pages that have not been updated, in the fields of medicine and desktop Linux functionality; I use Google search less and less as a result, because it actually now stands in the way of getting reliable responses. If it told me the sources it used, I'd be fine with its answers, as I could check them. That is how Feynman would do it, and that is how I learned to learn, when I got the PhD: go to the sources.
Sadly, then, I am missing out on the benefits that this company is offering the world now, which are quantifiably more beneficial with each passing day. Would those benefits be for the companies whose phone trees are getting longer and longer? Or those with chatbots or AI assistants that never--and I mean, never, 0-%-success rate, handle my customer service problem, without my eventually consulting an actual human being, who does it immediately? If only creeping monopolisation had not locked down every single segment of American commerce, I would be glad of them reducing costs, but as it is, I know that I will never see the cost savings, in the absence of competition.
I just can't celebrate Alphabet's success.
Thanks. It's responses like yours that keep me going, because they take an actual effort to make.
There are few of us, and we should reinforce each other as much as possible with real words, not with a graphical thumb.
Sadly, these days, most of my comments are resigned, bitter, nasty, and puerile, and don't really even deserve any kind of thumb.
Oh, I've had one of those Chatbot AI's solve an issue for me.
Mind you, all that was needed was for a refund for goods they admitted hadn't been delivered and were lost in transit, had been lost for four weeks, and were highly unlikely to turn up.
Personally, a simple button to request the refund would have sufficed: The AI was doing the equivalent of following a pre-set script just to confirm the request with a caveat that should the goods actually appear, I either needed to pay for them or return them meaning it took far longer to solve the issue than clicking a button would have.
In a LOT of ways, it's the "CCP Model".
* Use super cheap [AI] labor capable of doing lots of repetitive tasks at low cost without complaint nor disrupting the status quo nor even making suggestions for improvement
* Have a handful of bureaucrat types spend all day nit-picking details but missing the big picture
* slap it together really fast, never mind proper testing [that's for the customer or end-user to deal with] or any kind of efficiency analysis nor "overall impact" analysis
* If it does not work right, just add more [AI] bodies, that'll solve the problem!!
"The CCP model"? AI is the capitalist's ultimate wet dream. No need to pay labour with its irritating demands for fair treatment and a share of the profits it helped create. Just ranks of obedient machines working without breaks, health care, or complaint. Exactly who is going to pay for the output once you've sacked all the peons is still kind of unclear. Fortunately for us, AI is so far of limited use for solving real world problems. The things it can do usefully and well aren't profitable enough to justify the vast sums of money being thrown at it; the things that would be profitable (replacing humans) are so far to risky given the general flakiness of generative AI. At some point the bubble will burst and it will make the Web 1.0 collapse ln 2001 ook small in comparison.
Google seach was never good or great.
After all how does one judge there arent better results if it never displayed them to begin with ?
Its all hype, that it was good.
If you think about it Google Search and the page rank algo doesnt make sense, by defintion its broken because it rewards popularity and not actual value. We all know the public is hardly a good judgment, i mean doctors are outnumbered by idiots, jsut look at all the fake alternative medicine belief and web page counts.
"Gemini" for non-programming purposes is no longer free! And that's great. Business version is ~ 17/mo. It means Google is no longer in a race to the bottom with Open AI et. al. That means the actual utility of ROI of the genAI tools will drive their development. Unlike the business model for other-than-genAI where everything is so-called "free", resulting in ever worse performance for the user, driven by advertising and PI monetization.
"Gemini" in colab is still free (for programming purposes) until Dec/2024.
A beneficial side effect of pay-to-play is the boost it gives to open source and the room it creates for competition to grow. Think of the opportunities for new growth if Chrome, Android, Edge, and iOS+Safari were forced to charge just $4~5/mo subscription, and at the same time new US cellphones were required to be able to dual boot OS's, and have a standard interface allowing alternative OS to be installed and run. Much better than forcing Google to sell Chrome and/or Android to some hedge funds who will simply be worse than the status quo.
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