There is 'kernel device driver' kind of systems, and there is 'kubernetes module' kind of systems. Most of the modern infrastructure work happens for the latter use-case. GC is a very reasonable choice, provided you know what you're doing.
Funny enough, 5G is not much better than 4G other than 1000x device density. There is no 1000x increase in population on the horizon, but IoThieves is around the corner.
"While neural nets are good at organizing a world governed by simple rules, they are not proven good at interacting with other intelligent agents." This is an interesting point, for example squeezing information through a narrow channel forces a kind of understanding that brute forcing does not. I've stopped paying close attention to the field a year ago, but I have seen a handful of openai and deepmind papers taking some small steps down this route.
> Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt's dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users' privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC's recent "Inside the Mind of Google" special about whether users should be sharing information with Google as if it were a "trusted friend," Schmidt responded, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
There is a special place in Hell for those who made surveillance profitable. The surveillance apparatus of yesterday’s Eastern Europe tyrants was too inefficient and collapsed under its own weight. Leave it to adtech to build economically viable surveillance, which can and will be cooped by governments.