Artificial intelligence

I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -

we don’t use it.

like internally. we don’t use it.

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tech does not—and will not—respect lessons in power imbalances that others learned the hard way over the past two decades.

Naming might seem superficial compared to the technical complexity behind AI, but it’s the first interaction people have with the product. Get the name right, and you win. Get it wrong, and you leave users hovering, uncertain, frustrated.

The tools will no doubt get better at pulling relevant quotes. But I’m less confident they’ll ever solve the perennial mysteries of taste and discernment. Many great artists have put out what they thought was their best work, only to see it flop. And vice versa—what they thought was average ended up going viral. Every time you release a work of art

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