This being a technology forum, I suppose "issues the biggest tech firm has" is of interest to most of us in the forum. The biggest tech firm being
Google, the problem is big enough to loose > 4% of it's market cap in one day.I stumbled into this (rather long and in depth) article. It describes a rather dysfunctional
Google totally incapable of producing or even maintaining it's prominent position. It is totally dragged down by non-business related issues making the organization impossible to operate. This is my first encounter of this on-line magazine. I am not sure about the credibility nor the quality of the writing.
These bullet points are at start of the article:- Following interviews with concerned employees throughout the company, a portrait of a leaderless Google in total disarray, making it “impossible to ship good products at Google”
-Revealing the complicated diversity architecture underpinning Gemini’s tool for generating art, which led to its disastrous results
- Google knew their Gemini model’s DEI worldview compromised its performance ahead of launch
- Pervasive and clownish DEI culture, from micromanagement of benign language (“ninja”) and bizarre pronoun expectations to forcing the Greyglers, an affinity group for Googlers over 40, to change their name on account of not all people over 40 have grey hairThis is the first paragraph:Last week, following Google’s Gemini disaster, it quickly became clear the $1.7 trillion-dollar giant had bigger problems than its hotly anticipated generative AI tool erasing white people from human history.. ... ...and terrified investors fled, shaving over $70 billion off the kraken’s market cap. Now, the industry is left with a startling question: how is it even possible for an initiative so important, at a company so dominant, to fail so completely?I suppose there is some degree of truth to what the article described because that would match my personal estimation of how large tech firms operates today. My personal conclusion lead me to believe that unless we shape up and change direction, we wont be able to maintain a high-tech society at all.
What do you think? May be they will all wake up and we continue to develop or we regress to horses being the fastest mean of transportation?
Link to the article:https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fearEdit: Corrected wrongly applied BOLD in text, and added a missing "the" in "the article"