@AdsLiaison@GoogleAds Our Google Ads account was hijacked. Google confirmed the takeover, suspended the account, then told us the only route to reinstatement is approval from the attacker’s manager account. Support says it can’t be escalated. Ticket 2-9590000041073. What is the real escalation path?
@Google@GoogleAds my firm believe is Google has raced to the bottom with cost cutting that now its support is made up of unintelligent bots. And this has not just been the case for simple unpaid features, but even for their most profitable business and for high risk areas for security. I am speaking from personal experience of having to deal with bots for over 1.5 months to address a very simple security issue, as a paid customer. Multiply this by millions and you get some insight into what is happening g inside the engine. I would personality not hold a Google stock any more.
That is the reply I got from you :"Hi again. We’ve looked into the case details and found that our team has shared an appropriate response with you on the case. For further assistance, please reply to the same email thread you have with our support team." This is not help . This is dismissing my escalation all together !!
@GoogleAds I am now convinced the whole googled is ran by bots . Security breaches affecting paid customers on google ads cannot be handled by Google and users are asked to negotiate with their hackers to resolve issues
imo this is a HUGE deal
Google DeepMind and the UK govt have just signed a partnership w/ 3 pillars:
1. transforming public services
2. accelerating scientific discovery
3. advancing AI security & resilience
Concrete bits that matter:
- a Gemini model trained on the UK national curriculum to support teachers & students
- priority access for UK scientists to tools like AI Coscientist, AlphaEvolve, AlphaGenome & WeatherNext
- AI projects with the govt. to modernise public services
BUT the materials lab is possibly the MOST exciting bit: a fully automated facility, integrated with Gemini, using robotics to synthesise & characterise hundreds of materials per day.
Imagine what AI + robot lab team searching for new superconductors, better solar materials, more efficient semiconductors could mean for the UK.
Christmas came early thanks to @demishassabis 🥰🥰🥰
I asked Grok, Chat GPT, Deepseek and Gemini :
If you have the choice of having any ceo who would you choose for yourself ?
Grok: @elonmusk
Chat GPT: @PatrickCollison (CEO Stripe)
Gemini:@satyanadella (CEO of Microsoft)
DeepSeek: @LisaSu (CEO AMD)
A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:
1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators.
4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc.
TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.