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sartres_ t1_j58k1nb wrote

Those sound like good ideas. The search integration, I think, is inevitable since Microsoft is doing it. But that's not what they're doing right now, they're doing things like "an application called Maya that visualizes three-dimensional shoes" and "tools to help other businesses create their own A.I. prototypes in internet browsers . . . . which will have two “Pro” versions." These are not using their advances to their potential. I could be wrong, but I see this going poorly.

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sartres_ t1_j58hu38 wrote

They don't have a business model for stuff like this. While most of their products are free and consumer-oriented, Google does have an enterprise ecosystem, mainly Google Cloud. They're bad at it and losing to AWS/Azure but they do try. If they go consumer I can also see another Stadia-type disaster. The AI team does not like the general public and there's no way they'll go with a scheme like Docs or gmail.

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sartres_ t1_j57n0fl wrote

No, I doubt they'll reduce their "safety" restrictions. They have a lot of interesting experiments and they never release any of it. They never even use it. It's endemic to the culture, they've been doing it for years. Remember when they showed off AlphaZero, totally upended the chess AI world, refused to release any of it or use it again, and dropped the project?

We'll end up getting LaMDa and Imagen as a $10k corporate subscription that's somehow still more locked down than ChatGPT, and in a few years google execs will be scratching their heads when Microsoft owns the AI market.

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sartres_ t1_iwf8wjr wrote

This is a great idea. It'd be more useful with more direct descriptions - some of them are fine, but some of them have too much marketing speak to parse. For example, Midjourney:

>An independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.

I'm guessing you pulled it from their ad copy, which, fair, this is a lot of tools to write individual descriptions for all of them, but it's literally meaningless. There is no content in that entire sentence. "A paid AI art generator based on Stable Diffusion" would be much more helpful.

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