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futureshock on April 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google DeepMind

Inventing transformers may prove to be Google's undoing. Being a research paper factory doesn't seem to be good for shareholders.

politician on April 20, 2023 [–]

Still, inventing XMLHttpRequest wasn't Microsoft's undoing, but for many years we suspected it might be. This might be a similar situation.

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