Google AI Ultra

Ok so I have Google One AI or whatever the previous version of this is called, and what's wild to me is that in Google Sheets, if I ask it to do anything, literally anything, it says it can't do it. The only thing it can do is read a sheet's data and talk about it. It can't help you form formulas, add data to the sheet, organize things, anything, as far as I've seen.

How does Google have the best models according to benchmarks but it can't do anything useful with them? Sheets with AI assist on things like pivot tables would be absolutely incredible.

>How does Google have the best models according to benchmarks but it can't do anything useful with them?

KPI driven development with no interest in killing their cash cow.

These are the people who sat on transformers for 5 years because they were too afraid it would eat their core business, e.g. Bert.

One need look at what Bell Labs did to magnetic storage to realize that a monopoly isn't good for research. In short: we could have had mass magnetic storage in the 1920s/30s instead of 50s/60s.

A pop sci article about it: https://gizmodo.com/how-ma-bell-shelved-the-future-for-60-ye...