Google should just spin out DeepMind as an independent company and get out of the model building business: just sell tents and shovels as they say, and leave the actual (gold) mining to others.

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hax0ron3 a day ago | parent [-]

Google Search is still a large fraction of Alphabet's revenue, and Alphabet needs to be able to deliver AI results for people's searches if it wants to stay relevant in the search game.

I imagine it's much easier to have fine grained control over AI search results if you develop and own the AI yourself.

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dpkirchner a day ago | parent [-]

Last I checked their AI results were terrible, worse than anything I get from ChatGPT or Claude. The only benefit is their AI results are fast.

If I were google there's no way I'd leave their AI overviews in place as-is.

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JacobAsmuth 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can you give an example of a search query with a terrible AI Overview? Or even better, a class of search queries that produce terrible AI Overviews? Would really appreciate it!

	▲	dpkirchner 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, I'll try. It has been a while (in LLM terms) since I opened them.

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hax0ron3 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was thinking about them fine-tuning the results for marketing purposes. But I just did a bit of research and it seems that would probably actually be illegal. So never mind, maybe?

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diegolas 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

it used to be, i'm finding myself following up the overview conversation more often than not