Comment by ants_everywhere
17 hours ago
This is also my take on the market, although I also thought it looked like they were going to win 2 years ago too.
> How are we feeling about Google putting everyone out of work and owning the future? It's starting to feel that way to me.
Not great, but if one company or nation is going to come out on top in AI then every other realistic alternative at the moment is worse than Google.
OpenAI, Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, and X all have worse track records on ethics. Similarly for Russia, China, or the OPEC nations. Several of the European democracies would be reasonable stewards, but realistically they didn't have the capital to become dominant in AI by 2025 even if they had started immediately.
>OpenAI, Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, and X all have worse track records on ethics.
I'd argue Google is evil as OpenAI (at least lately), but I otherwise generally agree with your sentiment.
If Google does lay waste to its competitors, then I hope said competitors open source their frontier models before completely sinking.