He's a UI strategist, from a UI perspective some of these AI things are a mess.
But Google says that their mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. A technology that understands and generates human language, with all its idiosyncrasies and connotations, is probably pretty important to that mission. And OpenAI stole a march on Google in commercializing it.
Maybe they justifiably panicked a little because they were starting to miss the boat.
It's a fine line between running around with your head cut off, and entering terminal decline due to too little too late.
That mission of organizing the worlds info fell to the way side, after they became the world's largest Human Attention trading (some call it thieving) marketplace.
They can't reconcile both missions.
Ideally Alphabet should be running this as separate company that is free from any obligation to incorporate what they build, into Google's existing line up of garbage no customer ever asked for. That ever growing landfill has mostly been built up to increase digital real estate, on which to sell ads. And if it all burns down its good for the planet.
But Google says that their mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. A technology that understands and generates human language, with all its idiosyncrasies and connotations, is probably pretty important to that mission. And OpenAI stole a march on Google in commercializing it.
Maybe they justifiably panicked a little because they were starting to miss the boat.
It's a fine line between running around with your head cut off, and entering terminal decline due to too little too late.