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In the past week, Google and Microsoft have both said they are "betting the company" on Clippy-that-talks.
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Possibly, near-term AI tech will be so incredibly powerful that even Clippy+ is genuinely worth betting the company on. Not likely.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Possibly, even though My Talking Clippy will fail, GOOG & MSFT do believe in it, and are making a vast negative-expected-value bet.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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More likely, pretending to "bet the company" on Clippy is a publicity drama. The press loves AI stories; junior engineers love them.1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes -
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Pretense or not, several tech giants "betting the company" on one risky future technology shows they have run out of ideas.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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Is this incumbency sclerosis, so they will be disrupted by SV startups? I doubt it; they buy any startup that looks promising.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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Maybe major innovations will have to come from outside the current technology group-think mindset altogether?
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