Will Google become a better place to work with a new focus on chatbots?

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Or will you avoid it due to the uncertainty of its business model(s) in the chatbot era?

smoldesu · Accepted Answer

Can we stop with the "Will $X change with AI" posts? I get that it's impressive new technology, and there's value in fielding technical responses, but all we can do is speculate. The same thing happened with Twitter, and HN's submission quality was not better for it. At least speaking for myself, it was a waste of time.

mark_l_watson · Answer

I have been working with deep learning for about 8 years, and neural networks since the 1980s, so I have a personal opinion on this:
I think that as DL tooling improves and there are increasing numbers of available pre-trained models from Hugging Face, OpenAI , etc., that fewer technical staff will be required to get increasingly good results. So I would expect companies like Google to be able to slightly decrease the employee count which is not good. However, re-crafting their core business has to be a super-exciting thing to be part of.
New skillsets will be required, but that is fun also.

lern_too_spel · Answer

Chatbots don't change how mismanaged Google is.

bitsavers · Answer

"re-crafting their core business"The G MBAs have run business expansion efforts and morale into the ground, now they are going to chase this brass ring?

Fire-Dragon-DoL · Answer

lol