Google's Last and Final Moonshot is AGI

Before they disrupt themselves in a leadership crisis and lack of visionary talent.

Hey Everyone,

Google is conducting massive layoffs to re-invest into Google Gemini Ultra and their quest for artificial general intelligence.

“There is thus this completely decisive property of complexity, that there exists a critical size below which the process of synthesis is degenerative, but above which the phenomenon of synthesis, if properly arranged, can become explosive, in other words, where syntheses of automata can proceed in such a manner that each automaton will produce other automata which are more complex and of higher potentialities than itself.” - John von Neumann, 1949.

Google is likely to layoff huge numbers of employees in a bid to achieve a technology that is claimed whereby AI that can outdo humans that tech bros say is coming and Alphabet will do all in its power to claim it for themselves first, or else Google as a company is likely to be disrupted in a relatively short period.

Meanwhile significant talent has and keeps churning (e.g., Uncharted Labs) and Holistic from Google, with more of their best people founding and getting involved in new Generative A.I. projects.  Scientists Laurent Sifre and Karl Tuyls, who have already given notice to leave DeepMind, have held discussions with investors about a financing round that could raise over 200 million euros ($217.84 million), another report said. This will add to the allure of Paris, France as a Generative A.I. hub.

Google cannot achieve AGI first with this loss of significant talent in AI, no matter how deep its pockets are. Part of Google Gemini’s demo was faked, and Google Ultra wasn’t even ready nine months after trying to catch up to OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. There are serious concerns now that Google is highly likely to be disrupted in maybe even the next five to ten years (2024 to 2029 or 2034). Google’s search quality is rapidly declining and we have new reasons to understand why. Google search is getting worse and it’s literally the least of their worries.

Leadership Crisis at Google

Reports from inside of Google and many of those who have left point to a lack of visionary leadership talent at Google. Diane Hirsh Theriault, a software engineer at Google, criticized the tech giant’s leadership on LinkedIn earlier last week. The problem is, it’s so much worse than this in reality.

Sundar Pichai has to go. Despite record profits, a number of Google executives realize and are worried that the company is suffering from both its size and leadership from its C.E.O., Sundar Pichai.

I want to go a bit deeper into this story and outline the probable story of Google’s decline and why it might be its own worst enemy and in the process of disrupting itself.

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“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers.” - Alan Turing, 1951.