I know that they probably named it Goose because he was a RIO and assisted the pilot, but the fact that Goose dies and this is a Google product is actually more fitting.
It’s named Goose because the company is definitely going to kill it.
"bring AI to every stage of the product development process.”
Oh boy. Safe to say this is a top down corporate push to get the latest hotness everywhere. Can’t wait to see what gets fucked up.
My company just had their all hands where they bragged about not only developers using AI tools, but their quality compliance team doing the same. Ya know, the oversight job that, for certain, needs to be done by humans. Very fun stuff.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As Google injects artificial intelligence into every product it possibly can, it’s also turning to AI to make its business more efficient.
Leveraging AI internally could be a key factor in Google’s new efficiency drive, which has resulted in leadership cutting thousands of jobs over the past 13 months and a number of team re-orgs.
One internal document notes that Goose is part of a plan to “bring AI to every stage of the product development process.”
Token context windows refer to the amount of text, numbers, and other information a language model can take into account when processing a query.
The company merged Brain and DeepMind last year to build Gemini, which was in turn named after the twin teams that created it.
And if Googlers have specific development questions while using Goose, they’re encouraged to turn to the company’s internal chatbot, named Duckie.
The original article contains 590 words, the summary contains 145 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!