Certificates are only as good as the number of companies that recognise them as worthwhile.
A CCNA holds a lot more water than Google certifications, despite there being plenty of alternatives to CCNA such as Network+ etc.
There are loads of certificates out there, IT and otherwise, that are just cash grabs by the issuer. Their relevancy is also industry-specific. Accounting certifications hold a lot more validity than many IT certifications.
As an IT vet I doubt Google certs will really get much traction. And with the specific aspect of AI certifications, I doubt they will stay relevant for long due to how much the AI ecosystem is in flux year to year.
I think where these could find some value is as an alternative to going through a possibly paid video/coursicle type tutorial for self-learners. Ostensibly, learners would be getting up-to-date information straight from the authorities, although this could age poorly if Google fails to update the content regularly.
Google tends to care (for their own certification). The number of ceertified engineers in the organization can be used as a metrics for how much they want to support you and what the relation will look like.
I've heard of orgs going through a batch of certification partly for their own education and partly for the push and pull with their dev rep.
I feel like the target audience is this is people who have zero sympathy for the poor, but the thing is that's generally not an opinion they reasoned themselves into. They don't want to spend the money helping anybody so they rationalize that a decide nobody deserves help. So don't expect any minds to change based on facts and logic.
(For the record I give no money to charity because I'm completely selfish; I make no assumptions about the people I don't help)
Poor people should have Amazon prime because it doubles as fast delivery, and zero other streaming services. Staying in is always going to be cheaper than going out so some entertainment at home is a good idea.
> 90% of the reason I use chat gpt is that it doesn't have ads. Shove them in and usage goes way down.
Don't you think that people would have felt similarly about early Google search?
> any type of automation (the big promise of AI) ads don't matter
I would have thought that ads have no place in an OS, but they proved me wrong on that. How sure are you they won't prove you wrong on automation ("summarize this text for me - here you go, shall I run it through Grammarly now?", "build this app for me - [uses freemium tool instead of equally capable FOSS]",...)? Never underestimate the potential for enshittification.
> It turns out it's worth it to merchants because when you're not paying now, you end up buying more than you would otherwise.
This applies to credit cards too. And Klarna offers 6 week interest free loans (with partial payments along the way), not really that different from the 30 day loans from credit cards. So why is Klarna worth the extra merchant fees to the merchant?
Because the terms are way friendlier. Merchants get the money right away, and there is no risk of chargebacks. The article doesn't mention this specifically though the overall confusion is the same: Klarna is a slightly different form of credit card.
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