Google Consolidates AI Research Divisions Into Google DeepMind (techcrunch.com) 9
As Google looks to maintain pace in AI with the rest of the tech giants, it's consolidating its AI research divisions. From a report: Google today announced Google DeepMind, a new unit made up of the DeepMind team and the Google Brain team from Google Research. In a blog post, DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said that Google DeepMind will work "in close collaboration ... across the Google product areas" to "deliver AI research and products." As a part of Google DeepMind's formation, Google says it'll create a new scientific board to oversee research progress and direction of the unit, which will be led by Koray Kavukcuoglu, the VP of research at DeepMind. Eli Collins, VP of product at Google Research, will join Google DeepMind as VP of product, while Google Brain lead Zoubin Ghahramani will become a member of the research leadership team, reporting to Kavukcuoglu.
Great! (Score:1)
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Nice-ish FP though I think the Subject needed work.
But I'm still clinging to the corporate-slogan joke that the google has traded "Don't be evil" for "All your attentions is belong to us!"
The Google Product Development Process? (Score:2)
Create
Consolidate
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= DeepFlake
It went something like this (Score:3)
Google engineer: It runs for a few minutes, and then it always commits suicide.
Google manager: I told you to take ALL of the articles about what Google does to projects out of the training data.
good news (Score:1)