minus-squareStarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversationslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoThis is common for companies that like to hire PhDs. PhDs like to work on interesting and challenging projects. With nobody to reign them in, they do all kinds of cool stuff that makes no money (e.g. Intel Optane and transactional memory). Designing a realtime scam analysis tool with resource constraints is interesting enough to be greenlit but makes no money. Once released, they’ll move on to the next big challenge, and when nobody is there to maintain their work, it will be silently dropped by Google. I’m willing to bet more than 70% of the Google graveyard comes from projects like these. linkfedilink
This is common for companies that like to hire PhDs.
PhDs like to work on interesting and challenging projects.
With nobody to reign them in, they do all kinds of cool stuff that makes no money (e.g. Intel Optane and transactional memory).
Designing a realtime scam analysis tool with resource constraints is interesting enough to be greenlit but makes no money.
Once released, they’ll move on to the next big challenge, and when nobody is there to maintain their work, it will be silently dropped by Google.
I’m willing to bet more than 70% of the Google graveyard comes from projects like these.