If someone can’t find work they probably don’t care about the global consequences

You can say it about the AI companies, but Google or Microsoft are far from AI companies.

That's a good point. Google was sleeping on AI and wasn't able to come up with a product before OpenAI and they only scrambled to come out with something when OpenAi became all the rage. Big companies are hard to budge and move in a new direction.

Google and Microsoft have existing major money printing businesses to keep their AI business afloat and burn money for a while. That's how Microsoft broke into gaming (and then squandered it years later for unrelated incompetence)

OpenAI doesn't have that.

I don’t think the expectations are any less, it’s just different. Much more responsibility around ops and security

The job hopping thing was definitely a trend, but I think it died with ZIRP. kinda weird to reference it now, but I guess it does have relevance to the state of some of these older services. The original teams are long gone

It’s not just IP. The score is linked to your google account as well and tracked across google properties

Need one of these but for 2 electric toothbrushes

You’re asking the biggest group of people who would want to do this

it's shocking how bad youtube ads are compared to say instagram or google search. maybe i'm just not targeted well.

the tab feature is really good

ask 10 people on the street about chatgpt or gemini and see which one they know

Now switch chatgpt and gemini on them and see if they notice.

Ask 10 people on the street in 2009 about IE and Chrome and ask which one they knew.

The names don't even matter when everything is baked in.

On the other hand...If you asked, 5-6-7 years ago, 100 people which of the following they used:

Slack? Zoom? Teams?

I'm sure you'd get a somewhat uniform distribution.

Ask the same today, and I'd bet most will say Teams. Why Teams? Because it comes with office / windows, so that's what most people will use.

Same logic goes for the AI / language models...which one are people going to use? The ones that are provided as "batteries included" in whatever software or platform they use the most. And for the vast majority of regular people / workers, it is going to be something by microsoft / google / whatever.

That's the wrong question. See how many people know Google vs. ChatGPT. As popular as ChatGPT is, Google's the stronger brand.

thats just brand recognition.

The fact that people know Coca Cola doesnt mean they drink it.

It doesn’t?

That name recognition made Coca Cola into a very successful global corporation.

About 95% of people know the Coca Cola brand, about 70% of soda drinkers in the US drink one of its sodas, and about 40% of all people in the US drink it.

Knowing and using are not the same thing.

Your numbers indicate to me their name recognition drives a big part of their value.

40% of the US is a huge customer base.

But whether the competition will emerge as Pepsi or as RC-Cola is still tbd.

or that they would drink it if a well designed, delicious, but no HFCS nor sugar alternative were marketed with funding

The real money is for enterprise use (via APIs), so public perception is not as crucial as for a consumer product.

Ask them about Google or OpenAI and...