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AI疯狂发展的现在， #Gemini 2发布至今已经霸榜一年了，简直匪夷所思。
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Here's an except from a post on Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter, which is very good on the subject of antitrust:
The last meaningful reference point for an antitrust remedy is the Microsoft case. In that one, the break-up was overturned, and a weak interoperability mandate was imposed. But the real penalty to Microsoft was embarrassment and fear within the executive suite; no longer would the company crush its rivals, from then on, lawyers would cautiously oversee product design. That’s not ideal, Microsoft should have just been broken up and set free to compete. But a chastened leadership did have the effect of not killing the next generation of companies, who ended up creating Web 2.0. That’s deterrence, which is one goal of antitrust remedies.
This remedy, by contrast, is obviously going to fail. And the main reason is that, unlike Microsoft, Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did. They see this conflict as one in which they fought bitterly, and kept at it, and shredded documents, and the result was… victory. They will have no compunction continuing to engage in unlawful behavior. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? Would a rival or the government really go before a weak judge who doesn’t want conflict, and convince him to act? I don’t think so. In other words, this decision isn’t just bad, it’s virtually a statement that crime pays.
Stoller recently wrote a post titled "Why Is Google Still in One Piece? The Terminating a Monopoly Problem" with the subtitle: "Google has lost three separate antitrust cases, and more are on the way. Why does this company still exist in one piece? It shouldn't, but we're still dealing with the hangover of the 1990s."
The problems with the tech sector go all the way to the tippy top.
#Google #monopoly #IllegalMonopoly #antitrust #dev #tech #Gemini #android #Chrome
Hah! I knew it. I knew the fediverse would pop up as I explore Gemini. Adding this to my collection of platforms to try.
有代码辅助的数据分析能力， #Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New)> #GPT-4o >>> #Gemini 1.5 Pro 002。
这大概也是Gemini可以免费无限使用的原因之一吧。
不过免费的Claude和ChatGPT都只能分析两三次就超限了。
#Gemini 果然更新了gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21，支持1M tokens和Code execution，默认Temperatures是0.7。
I can't explain it, but browsing via the Gemini protocol has a calming effect on me? I'm focused on the content. Found a Gemini front end for Wikipedia and it's clicking for me. No distractions, just content + links.
> I have no idea what I'm doing but it's fun to poke at new things.
In that respect they're very much like gambling. The messianic fantasies some ChatGPT users have been experiencing fits this picture as well.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #ChatGPT #GPT #Gemini #GamblingAddiction #nihilism
用 #GeminiCLI ，几乎耗尽了三个账户的免费 #Gemini API配额，OCR出来了秦晖的《 #拯救民主 》。虽然还不完美，不过也很接近了。
The culture industry is in the business of producing "culture" and distributing it, unidirectionally, to consumers of culture (think movies, TV shows, albums, books). We had a brief respite with the internet and social media, which are bidirectional and therefore interactive, as companies experimented with co-opting user content for use in cultural products. That period looks to be ending now, and companies are back to the business of unidirectionally firing cultural products at us. Since they never really figured out how to turn what the masses produce towards their ends without incurring significant costs, they are instead opting to fill the internet with generative AI output, which they can control and manipulate, and whose costs are the "better" kinds of costs (labor costs to hire content moderators, even contractors, are far worse to e.g. Wall Street than capital expenditures for servers or, even better, rental costs for cloud services).
The fact that Google took a perfectly good and functional internet search engine that lots of people liked and started turning it into an AI slop generator makes more sense, at least to me, when viewed through this lens. Google's search engine was never really a search engine. It was always a cultural artifact, complete with "commercials" (ads), with web page creators as producers. At some point Google calculated that using an in-house generative AI to produce the content for this artifact made more sense, so they started experimenting with it.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #Google #Gemini #culture #CultureIndustry