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valley_guy_12 | 3 years ago

The article starts, "Nestled in the hills of Mountain View", which is worrisome, because as anyone with even a passing familiarity with Silicon Valley geography knows, Mountain View is mostly flat. And Google's Mountain View offices are located on reclaimed baylands, which are especially flat.

I wonder if the article authors were thinking of Xerox PARC's offices in Palo Alto's hills? Or the road named "Sand Hill Road" that used to have some venture capitalist offices? Other than those offices I can't think of any significant hill-based offices in Silicon Valley.

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belval|3 years ago

The Economist is British so it's possible the person writing this has never been to the Bay Area and just made a wordplay based on "Mountain View".

Dalewyn|3 years ago

Journalists writing bullshit straight out of their asses is certainly nothing new in this day and age.

BonoboIO|3 years ago

ChatGPT had obviously some misunderstanding of the landscape ;-)

crazygringo|3 years ago

Ha, they have since changed it to "Near the bay in Mountain View".

foobiekr|3 years ago

Shoreline is kind of hilly even if the hills are landfill.

rconti|3 years ago

"Smelly hills of Shoreline" doesn't have quite the same ring to it

bee_rider|3 years ago

A shore is kind of like a hill, just wet.

hcks|3 years ago

That’s because these models are not grounded in the physical world, they’re just bullshit machines trained on text