How is that possible? Google has the research power, the TPUs, the data, everything. But Translate is not as good as a tool made by a much smaller company.
This is also a pattern. Their voices are not better than some paid services (NaturalReader for example). Their OCR and document understanding is inferior to Amazon Textract. Even in speech recognition there is the excellent Whisper from OpenAI doing just as good or better. Google's generative image models are not the best, and locked away for good measure. I think SD and MJ rule.
Google's AI was cool in 2000 for search and in 2016 for games. But now the best people are leaving them - almost the whole team who invented transformers has their own startups.
I also think maybe, just maybe, their TPUs are bad and they can't scale high quality models to the public. Maybe they lost the race because GPUs were better in the end. Maybe it's stupid, but how can we explain the lack of advanced AI? The other explanation is they won't mess with something that makes them so much money (current search/ad model).
This is also a pattern. Their voices are not better than some paid services (NaturalReader for example). Their OCR and document understanding is inferior to Amazon Textract. Even in speech recognition there is the excellent Whisper from OpenAI doing just as good or better. Google's generative image models are not the best, and locked away for good measure. I think SD and MJ rule.
Google's AI was cool in 2000 for search and in 2016 for games. But now the best people are leaving them - almost the whole team who invented transformers has their own startups.
I also think maybe, just maybe, their TPUs are bad and they can't scale high quality models to the public. Maybe they lost the race because GPUs were better in the end. Maybe it's stupid, but how can we explain the lack of advanced AI? The other explanation is they won't mess with something that makes them so much money (current search/ad model).