Comment by gedy
2 years ago
What on Earth has Google done to themselves. Is there an HR-like AI Safety bureaucracy that has inserted themselves in the org? Or is this top down what they want?
2 years ago
What on Earth has Google done to themselves. Is there an HR-like AI Safety bureaucracy that has inserted themselves in the org? Or is this top down what they want?
HR is one of the few parts of Google that span the entire org, and there have been some ridiculous motions coming out of it. I imagine managements queasiness about Gemini saying something bad combined with the typical Google infighting led to Gemini having some stupid design decisions.
> and there have been some ridiculous motions coming out of it
Could you be more specific?
It boils down to: Google has an open culture, and that sometimes is at odds with the org at large. When one silo wants one thing but another silo wants something else, who wins? Google HR often contorts themselves into impossible positions to satisfy both. It is inevitable that HR makes bad decisions and recently they have had some particularly bad controversies, like union busting, sexual harassment, middle eastern and Sino policies that add fuel to the fire.
Since the launch I have been using it quite a lot and I have to say that I have been hit by so many ridiculous guard rails and every one is more infuriating than the other.
The last one was when I asked how to run Notepad in Windows as an administrator from PowerShell and it told me that it can't tell me because it's too dangerous.
This product is pure garbage and I can't trust it with anything
I mean, this is obviously a mistake, not a deliberate policy decision. It's silly, but this sort of AI is in its infancy, and I'd much rather see devs err on the side of caution than otherwise.