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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure
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I honestly don't understand how someone can exist on the modern Internet and hold this view of a company like Google.
How? How?
I can't say much because of the NDA's involved, but my wife's company is in a project partnership with Google. She works in a very public facing aspect of the project.
When Google first came on board, she was expecting to see quality people who were locked in and knew what they were doing.
Instead she has seen terrible decision making (like "How the fuck do they still exist as company" bad decision making) and an over abundant reliance on using their name to pressure people into giving Google more than they should.
I remember when their motto was "Don't be evil". They are the very essence of sociopathic predatory capitalism.
Companies fill up with idiots and parasites. People who are adept at thriving in the role without actually producing value. Google is no exception.
They still exist because Google isn't really a technology company anymore. It's an advertising company masquerading as a technology company. Their success depends on selling more ads which is why all the failed projects don't seem to make a difference.
Your point seems very valid to me.
I don't even want to buy their products anymore because they constantly cancel them and remove any support.
The only ones they continue, seem to be the ones they can use for data collection .i.e. Pixels and Nests. (I shamefully own both).
It is so frustrating as a consumer. Especially when you know that you have become the product for them to sell.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
"I'm smarter than the average person"
If 85 people have an IQ of 100 and 15 have an IQ of 0, then 85% are smarter than the average.
Eh, average is an ambiguous term. While in statistics it often means "mean," it can also mean "median" or "mode," and I would argue the layperson saying "average" intends it to mean "typical," which is closer to median (or even mode). And in that case, those 85 percent would not be smarter than average.
Hey, don't call me out like that.
Big tech propaganda. There has been zero push back. At least until the last few years.
The entire zeitgeist from film/TV, news, academia, politics, everything has been propagandizing the world on how tech companies and the people behind it are basically modern day gods.
In film/TV the nerds have been the stereotype of the benevolent good natured but awkward super genius. The news has made them out to be the superstar businesses that are infinite money printers. Tech in academia is seen as the most prestigious departments. Politicians are all afraid of being labelled as tech illiterate. That's why nobody can ever make any sort of legislation on tech companies anymore. It's why "disruptive" (aka destructive) tech companies are allowed to break every single legislation ever made. Because all any techbro has to do is threaten to accuse politician for being afraid of technology. Nothing makes a politician shut up faster.
It came as no surprise that all the big tech heads were at the front row of the inauguration. We live in the dystopian cyberpunk future. For most people it seems they don't even know. They're completely entranced by it all.
As a sys/netadmin married to a developer, I've met a lot of developers, and can confirm that most are fucking retards who shouldn't be let anywhere close to a computer. A result of developer becoming an "in" profession where you could earn a lot of money with minimal education, and managers having no clue what a developer actually is or what good developer work looks like.
Because they don't have a clue how technology actually works. I have genuinely heard people claim that AI should run on Asimovs laws of robotics, even though not only would they not work in the real world, they don't even work in the books. Zero common sense.
I mean, they were never designed to work, they were designed to pose interesting dilemmas for Susan Calvin and to torment Powell and Donovan (though it's arguable that once robots get advanced enough, as in R. Daniel, for instance, they do work, as long as you don't mind aliens being genocided galaxy-wide).
The in-world reason for the laws, though, to allay the Frankenstein complex, and to make robots safe, useful, and durable, is completely reasonable and applicable to the real world, obviously not with the three laws, but through any means that actually work.
Well, there is the minor detail that an AI in this context has zero ability to kill anyone, and that it's not a true AI like Daneel or his pals.
Most people either can't or don't want to think beyond a certain level
Google's search AI is awful. It gives me a wrong answer, I'd say 70% of the time.