Google 1000 authors only produce words not tools

hardmaru @hardmaru Google’s Gemini paper has ~1000 authors

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That many authors, resources, time spent – and this is all they could produce? Selecting things they made work, untraceable methods and input data. Really good tools are accessible and immediately useful to all humans, not just some annual report. Shameful waste of good people.

My point  is that Google is not providing the tools needed so others can use these methods. It stays in a form only (and often not) useful to Google employees.  Never leaves their campus. Always academic toy problems. When a reasonable person audits these works, they are always so sprawling and incomplete, they are essentially useless to most people. A pile of paper is not a method.  No matter how large the pile.