innovation
The Original Sin of Everything
The Google AI team is in such a tough place: the targets will keep moving as their competitors advance. Any launch will hurt the brand that doesn’t live up to expectations which are rising. Throwing thousands of engineers to accelerate typically will slow things down. It’d be almost better to acknowledge they’re behind, take the short term hit,... See more
Suhailx.cominteresting thought on what Google should do as OpenAI and other competitors continue to lead. Go slow to go fast. Classic innovators Dilemma.
I do not think the new cool thing will be unimaginably better It will be different
-Zvi Mowshowitz
a good reminder that all innovation is initially resisted
Iconic successes seemed outright strange at first: Amazon (wait days to receive a product you’ve never seen), eBay (buy beanie babies from someone thousands of miles away), Google (trust an algorithm to answer your questions), LinkedIn (publicly post your resume), Facebook (share personal updates with people you haven’t seen in years), Airbnb (stay... See more
Philip Clark • The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.