5 things Google got right in 2019—and 5 it got wrong
24/12/2019
Sundar Pichai got a promotion. Google’s gadgets reached more people. And AI and content moderation continued to create new dilemmas.
For the last few years, one of the highest compliments you could pay Google was to say it wasn’t making the same mistakes as Facebook. The two companies are similar in many...
Sundar Pichai got a promotion. Google’s gadgets reached more people. And AI and content moderation continued to create new dilemmas.
For the last few years, one of the highest compliments you could pay Google was to say it wasn’t making the same mistakes as Facebook. The two companies are similar in many ways: For instance, both make most of their money by monetizing their users’ data, a business model with fundamental privacy issues. And both are reliant on algorithms that are prone to abuse by those who would use them to spread hate and misinformation. But in general, Google has been far more adept at sidestepping the kind of controversies that Facebook walked into every week.Read Full Story