• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Yeah. Also I’m guessing their AI additions to search made their profit margins worse since they take a lot more computation to produce. Although they probably cache a lot of them for common searches.

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      8 months ago

      Probably made the margins better because investors apparently still love hearing the word “AI” attached to shit

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Even though that surely results in them being able to access more money and makes shareholders richer, that’s not a factor in profit margins. Profit margins are just about revenue vs cost. In this case - how much the make from each search vs how much it costs to produce that search.

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      8 months ago

      The US National Weather Service releases updated 84-hour forecasts every 6 hours. Even with supercomputers at their disposal, due to the computational complexity of simulating physics, that is their best possible effort.

      Google, meanwhile, is “developing a machine learning model that it says can accurately predict weather in seconds – not hours – and outperforms 90% of the targets used by the world’s best weather prediction systems.” Using a single desktop computer, they can generate a highly accurate 10-day forecast in under a minute.

      More information:

      https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/12/ai-weather-forecasting-climate-crisis/

      Given this information, and given the enshittification of Google search, would you still make the same guess about their profit margins?