The New York Times tech reporter says google is going to win the AI race because it has something other tech companies lack: cachet.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

The New York Times tech reporter says google is going to win the AI race because it has something other tech companies lack: cachet.

I can't imagine anyone other than someone living in a Silicon Valley bubble thinking google has cachet. Does this man even know what cachet means?

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@MLE_online shall we issue a lettre de cachet for them?

[bytex64@awesome.garden]

@MLE_online “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM,” but even dumber.

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@MLE_online

Come to think of it, every reasonably big "tech" company has burned their reputation, prestige or whatever to the ground.

[stoneymonster@stoney.monster]

@MLE_online Maybe they misspelled cash.

[rglenn@mastodon.social]

@stoneymonster @MLE_online could be a Canadian dictating "cash, eh?"

[botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org]

@MLE_online
I've just read the techcrunch piece about how google are "reinventing" search, and it's clear nobody in the tech world (most journos included) have the smallest idea what ordinary people using tech products actually want from them.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@botvolution When we said we wanted search engines to stop showing us what they decided we asked for instead of what we actually asked for, these CEOs and reporters mimicked the shit search engines and decided what we asked for was more of that instead of less.

[jlamoree@infosec.exchange]

@MLE_online I dunno, cachet seemed to work for Alta Vista, MapQuest, and Ask Jeeves.