Ironically I was just thinking earlier today how the most valuable Google products to me are YouTube and Android... and that's it.
I gave up on Chrome a decade ago, going back to Firefox. I don't use Google for search anymore, I do use Gmail but I also got Protonmail so could easily migrate the Gmail traffic there.
A lot of non-techies I know have complained for some time how Google search sucks, and while a lot use Chrome it seems to be mainly inertia.
Not saying Google is dying, but it seems vulnerable for disruption.
Is it really possible to even disrupt Youtube? It's been a constant in our lives for the past 20 years and is basically a historical record by now. By a rough estimate, they have to keep buying over 1% of the total world production of HDD drives just to stay on top of the new data being uploaded. Google has completely destroyed it, placing more ads than videos on it, making it unusable without an adblocker and people still use it, it's that core to everyone's lives. It's like a public utility.
I've been thinking about it. AI generated videos. It could be generating a DSL or IR for some sort of multimedia VM so there's only a tiny fraction of data. Just common textures and shapes in a CDN. Could be fully interactive.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of it was already tried in some form.
The documentation [1] says otherwise. Image generation is "Restricted General Availability (approved users)" and "To request access to use this Imagen feature, contact your Google account representative."
where are you seeing that 32-shot vs 1-shot comparison drawn? in the pdf you linked it seems like they run it various times using the same technique on both models and just pick the technique which gemini most wins using.
Youtube resembles TV but the apparent commercial breaks aren't. Much of the purported content on youtube is shilling less thinly-veiled than the '80s most toyetic TV shows.
"We now return to your regularly-scheduled commercial."
"Oh good, I didn't miss a moment of this week's episode of Product Unboxing."
"This week's episode of Product Unboxing features the limited edition Thneed Premium but first I gotta give a shout out to my sponsor..."
This is why my parents only permitted me to watch public broadcasting until I was 13. I didn't appreciate it at the time but in retrospect they were right. It's utterly bizarre how much time most kids spent watching commercial propaganda.
I spent half a day with a family (friend of a girlfriend) many years ago and was blown away by their home and parenting, which was very much what I'd want if I was ever a parent (which I won't be). No screens visible except a TV that I never saw turned on, no computers visible, no electronic toys, and very few toys in general. Their child, maybe age 9, was amazing - didn't ask for anything, wasn't pleading for sugar or TV time or toys or attention. She was having a lot of fun politely socializing with adults and amusing herself with drawing, crafts, and reading.
It's wild to see a lot of parenting in contrast. Kids come home from school, instantly sit down on phone or tablet, will complain incessantly or throw a tantrum if it's taken away for any amount of time, and eat whatever they want whenever they want and also tantrum if they can't. Usually involves a lot of yelling by parent with zero effect on child.
Which consumerist propaganda video on TV was your childhood favorite? My favorite is a tie between Trix and Cookie Crisp -- two cereals so good you had to protect them from thieves. Now that I think about it, maybe Lucky Charms is my favorite because in those commercials the children were the thieves!
The tweet you linked was from an outage that lasted 30 minutes, it's pretty disingenuous of you to try and pass that off as status quo.
I do agree however that the labeling has gotten less prominent over time. I don't however agree that it has become subtle enough to considered indistinguishable from search results.
> I don't however agree that it has become subtle enough to considered indistinguishable from search results.
This is what it looks like on mobile. A tiny "sponsored" text is the only thing that distinguishes ads from search results: https://imgur.com/a/WOk4NdR
It was patched before the public disclosure, go read the security bulletin [1]. CVE-2023-24033, CVE-2023-26496, CVE-2023-26497, and CVE-2023-26498 are the big modem vulnerabilities.
