Where will the software engineer come from? We're in a belt-tightening part of the business cycle and FANGs have a pressure not to hire, so you assume the existing engineers. But these engineers are now working on real things so those real things may suffer. Which brings actual profits? The future AI thing or the present? The future AI is unavoidable given the possibilities are visible and the competition is on but a "shit shows" of various sorts seem very possible.
Where will the hardware and the processing power come from? There are estimates of server power consumption quintupling [1] but these are arbitrary - even if it just doubles, just "plugging the cords" in takes time. And where would the new TPUs/GPUs come from? TSMC has a capacity determined by investments already made and much of that capacity is allotted already - more capacity anywhere would involve massive capital allocation and what level of increased profits will pay for this?
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-generative-ai-search-race-ha...
Every once in a while I hear someone at Hacker News hitting the dead end with Google Search. Can you give an example where Google search fails, but other search engines (e.g. Bing) provide results? Must be fringe niche topics, no?
>... or decides to hellban me for searching too specifically
Is hellbanning a thing at Google? What happens if one gets hellbanned?
Is hellbanning a thing at Google? What happens if one gets hellbanned?
You get redirected to a page with allegations of "suspicious activity" and are presented with endless CAPTCHAs.
I always took a bit of pride when that happened. Having google think that the searches are as systematic as what a computer would generate is high praise.