Have the proposed impact of Neural Nets come to light yet? I don’t say this in a snarky way. In my life I don’t encounter them much or at all and thinking about Google specifically their search results don’t seem to be getting better.
They’re everywhere! I can take a photo on my phone and it’s instantly given convincing artificial depth of field. I can search my photos for the name of anyone I know and instantly all the photos containing those people show up. I regularly use voice assistants, translation, and can dictate full length messages while I’m driving in my car. Neural nets can even drive cars now!
This stuff is already making massive impacts, and yet it’s still in the early stages. The meeting in the article was less than 10 years ago. Just imagine in 20 or 30 years from now.
Kind of. Google Images mostly seems to use words on the page with the image. If you search for someone's name, you'll find plenty of photos of other people.
Image search by content, improved language translation, Siri/Alex/Google Assistant, automatic content moderation to name a few.
With that said, I generally feel like my life has not been impacted greatly. Siri can barely tell me anything other than the first paragraph of a wikipedia page or today's weather. I don't search my photos often. I don't translate languages often, and I'm not in a back office in charge of moderation.
Recommender systems, text to speech (and the other way round), probably some problems in logistics like getting you deliveries and keeping the power running.
