[HN Gopher] Google's Latest Experiments in Labs
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Google's Latest Experiments in Labs
Author : tpmx
Score : 64 points
Date : 2023-05-10 18:02 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (labs.withgoogle.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (labs.withgoogle.com)
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| tpmx wrote:
| Just launched in the Google I/O keynote.
|
| Seems like most of the waitlist signups are US only. Mullvad VPN
| worked for me.
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| SXX wrote:
| No idea if it's new or old one, but I got access to MusicLM
| almost immediately. What the point of having waitlist then?
| echelon wrote:
| Is MusicLM any good?
| internetter wrote:
| Interesting. I've been waiting for hours.
|
| Waiting lists are terrible. I loose interest by the time I get
| let in.
| elashri wrote:
| They only allow you to signup for the search AI waiting list if
| you are using chrome.
| franze wrote:
| on desktop maybe, on mobile even chrome does not work for me
| crazygringo wrote:
| It's pretty common for alpha-version or experimental software
| to be for a single browser only.
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| Then once you've locked down all the features for release, you
| go back and handle shims and multi-browser support,
| accessibility, and so forth.
|
| I don't think Labs _experiments_ being Chrome-only is something
| to complain about, even more so waitlist-only ones.
| elashri wrote:
| That makes sense. I just edited the comment so that it is
| (hopefully) less complaining and more factual.
| nightski wrote:
| I thought Google was as proponent of standards so things like
| shims and multi-browser support weren't really a concern /s
| crazygringo wrote:
| I can't even tell what you're being sarcastic about. What's
| sarcastic about Safari or Firefox not having implemented a
| standard yet?
| stranded22 wrote:
| Yes - mullvad worked me to get on the waitlist
| joebiden2 wrote:
| Have a close look which google engineers get fired when this gets
| closed. They may found a new company, which is a strong buy
| signal (for the new company, not for google obviously)
|
| (When will google finally get a new CEO?)
| RobotToaster wrote:
| >"Workspace Labs is not accepting signups in your country at this
| time."
| oceanplexian wrote:
| > Tailwind is your AI-first notebook
|
| Can't wait to put my data into a new Google Product that will
| totally not get cancelled in 3 months.
| jsnell wrote:
| I know that nothing will stop HN readers from rewarding yet
| another repetition of this shallow and repetitive joke. But it
| seems particulary mis-applied in this instance. This is labs,
| these are not billed as products in the first place! The
| headline is "help test early-stage experiments".
| andrewstuart wrote:
| >> shallow and repetitive joke
|
| Not a joke.
| albertzeyer wrote:
| I get a 404 when I click "join waitlist".
| TechBro8615 wrote:
| Tailwind is a CSS framework, and some soon-to-be cancelled
| product from Google that shares (stole) its name isn't going to
| change that in my mind. Honestly, that name collision seems in
| poor taste. They couldn't come up with a name that's not
| already used by a popular open source project?
| wildrhythms wrote:
| You think the VPs and marketing people who name this shit
| ever ask an engineer for their opinion? Lol
| TechBro8615 wrote:
| I have no idea what VPs and marketing people at Google do,
| but whatever it is, they don't appear to be very good at
| it.
| meibo wrote:
| Tailwind is a word in the English language, first mentioned
| in 1897: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tailwind
|
| People always complain when companies trademark actual words
| as product names, can't have it both ways.
| pphysch wrote:
| It's pretty obvious that when you prefix a product name with
| "Project" that's its not necessarily final. If the experiment
| is a success, it will indubitably be shipped under a less
| verbose name that doesn't collide.
| almog wrote:
| > To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers
| may read, annotate, and process your AI Test Kitchen
| conversations, interactions and demo outputs. Please do not
| include information that can be used to identify you or others in
| your AI Test Kitchen conversations or interactions. You will be
| able to delete your data while using a particular demo, *but once
| you close out of the demo, your data will be stored in a way
| where Google cannot tell who provided it and can no longer
| fulfill any deletion requests*. Your interactions are retained
| for up to four years.
|
| Some fun facts from MusicLM privacy policy.
|
| Also, Tailwind's "Join waitlist" link
| (https://thoughtful.sandbox.google.com/signup) leads me to a 404
| page (maybe be region specific as I'm not based in N. America).
| martinesko36 wrote:
| Google IO has been a disappointing affair for the last 10 years,
| from only releasing on waitlists to never actually shipping to
| production. I sign up for their waitlists, but rarely actually
| hear back. I'm more than convinced today that Google's good days
| are long over.
| MattHeard wrote:
| I used to be an active user of all the old Google Labs tools but
| now my personal Workspace account locks me out of everything, so
| meh.
| crazygringo wrote:
| Just use a free personal account?
|
| Labs stuff isn't fully supported, by definition, so IT admins
| generally don't want to deal with it. Experimental stuff isn't
| intended for paid business use which is meant to have higher
| standards of reliability.
| SquareWheel wrote:
| They said they were using a personal Workspace account, not a
| paid business account. They're likely on a legacy Google Apps
| account, as am I, for having signed up using a custom domain
| name 15 years ago.
|
| Just making a new account isn't a realistic option when you
| can't move over purchases, YouTube uploads, and the millions
| of other pieces of data tied to that account.
| crazygringo wrote:
| I'm not saying to migrate entire accounts, just to use a
| free personal account if you want to try these new Labs
| products or features. Nobody's stopping you from doing
| that, and it's really easy to handle multiple Google
| accounts in Chrome or Firefox.
|
| And if experimental things take off they can get integrated
| into the paid Workspace versions.
| dig1 wrote:
| Clicking on "Supercharge learning & ideation with AI" waitlist
| gives me: "404. That's an error. The requested URL was not found
| on this server. That's all we know."
|
| Well done Google, well done :P
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| Bonus20230510 wrote:
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