<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 6:26 AM Ronald Barnes <<a href="mailto:ron@ronaldbarnes.ca">ron@ronaldbarnes.ca</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 15/02/2023 11.53:<br>
<br>
> Those who are clamouring about AI's capabilities are non-specialists <br>
> (mainly tech and non-tech journalists, Youtubers, ...etc.)<br>
<br>
No, that's just wrong.<br>
<br>
Google, Microsoft, etc. are hardly non-specialists and they're all over <br>
this. Google had an emergency meeting, bringing in the retired founders, <br>
and put together a disastrous, hasty, ill-fated product demo in response.<br>
<br>
They're suitably scared right now.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I see this as FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) more than anything else. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Microsoft is latching on to ChatGPT itself, whether by pouring money into it</div><div>or integrating it into Bing.</div><div><br></div><div>Google has a history of jumping onto things just because competitors do it.</div><div>And a certain degree of that is justified. What Google does is not go into it</div><div>enough, keep changing it, and then eventually kills it. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Remember Google Plus?</div><div>Or the various chat products? The original one, then Hangouts, then killing</div><div>that and pushing Chat which had no video integration, and Google Meet</div><div>as a clone for Zoom post-pandemic? There is also Duo. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The history of Google's forays into various markets and products makes me</div><div>very skeptical if this will be a sustainable product. <br></div></div></div>