What is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse
What is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse:
PARC invented all the foundations of personal computing, yet Apple and Microsoft commercialized it
Google invented many of the foundations of AI, yet everyone else is commercializing it
Even worse, everyone else is now competing with them, and now those competitors are coming for their biggest money maker: Search
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Sundar Pichai fumbled Google's AI head start and it'll be studied for decades
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