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Mark Zuckerberg's Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly
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FuturismMark Zuckerberg's Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face SpectacularlyDespite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down.Replying to @vegeta@lemmy.world
Outside of Facebook what has he been responsible for that didn’t blow up in his face? The only other things Meta has that aren’t thus far miserable failures are Instagram and Whatsapp, both of which they bought.
Replying to @flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
And Google built a search engine. Everything else they’ve tried to build has failed, other than maybe Gmail which was just a Yahoo Mail / Hotmail clone. Everything else that has been successful has been an acquisition: Maps (Keyhole), YouTube, Android, Google Photos (Picasa), Doubleclick…
We really need robust antitrust. How many of these acquisitions would be thriving companies in their own right, competing with the big tech giants if the tech giants hadn’t been able to absorb them.
Google+ is an example of what happens when companies have to compete instead of acquiring other companies. Google poured billions into it and it flopped completely.
Replying to @merc@sh.itjust.works
just wanted to add to the list that google bought writely and immediately started making it worse as google docs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalyr