AI researchers can make any claim, the risk of getting busted is close to none.
Didn't work ?
Well dataset was different
Didn't work ?
Well code was different
Can I try your work ?
Well it's proprietary / I don't have access / We shutdowned the cluster
But the result is guaranteed increase in salary and job opportunities.
Since these companies are publicly listed, they are by definition encouraged and encouraging to make grandiose claims in order to make themselves more attractive to investors, and they can blame the individuals if it becomes discovered.
My favorite being that Bard (PaLM version) is sentient, but it was too big this time.
Imagine a large pharmaceutical company claiming they can cure very important diseases, but the results cannot be independently verified, nor audited.
Itβs ok in the short-term, but not when you make that claim during few years.
The point is probably the implication that it'll be pushed to android as a native feature (in the photos app or similar), thus it making sense for investors reading this to put money into google rather than e.g. stability or openai etc. The people writing the article are likely shareholders etc.
OpenAi gets a lot of criticism for being closed, but at least I can play with their api most of the time.
What's the point of this if we will never be able to use this?