I worked at Google for 10 years in AI and invented suggestive language from wordnet/bag of words.

As much as what you are saying sounds right I was there when sundar made the call to bury proto LLM tech because he felt the world would be damaged for it.

And I don’t even like the guy.

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zbentley 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> sundar made the call to bury proto LLM tech

Then where did nano banana and friends come from? Did Google reverse course? Or were you referring to something else being buried?

	▲	gradys 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This was long before. Google had conversational LLMs before ChatGPT (though they weren’t as good in my recollection), and they declined to productize. There was a sense at the time that you couldn’t productize anything with truly open ended content generation because you couldn’t guarantee it wouldn’t say something problematic. See Facebook’s Galactica project for an example of what Google was afraid would happen: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-lar...
	▲	tsunamifury 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Neema was running a fully fledged Turing passing chatbot in 2019. It was suppressed. Then written about in open source and openAI copied it. Then Google was forced to compete. This is all well known history.