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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.
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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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Yes, the “unicorns” are holding out for that… but none of them are tech innovators: http://fortune.com/unicorns/
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anyone objecting to your characterization on the basis that Palantir is on the list doesn't know Palantir.
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I don’t know much about Palantir, but what little I know suggests you are right!
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getting Int / DoD to pay big $$$ for crappy data viz products that demo well was pretty brill, I have to admit.
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This has been a reliably successful scam since the 1970s. A certain MIT lab that will not be named pioneered it…
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