<story><title>Google DeepMind</title><url>https://www.deepmind.com/blog/announcing-google-deepmind</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>A couple of thoughts:&lt;p&gt;- This does not seem unexpected. Google is panicked about losing the AI race and pushing resources into DeepMind is a logical step to mitigating those fears.&lt;p&gt;- Google has currently given ~300M to Anthropic and has a partnership with them. I assume Google continues to see potential in both avenues and won&amp;#x27;t neglect one AI team for the other. I&amp;#x27;m guessing that DeepMind will be their primary focus because of the numerous, real-world applications already at play.&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s tough for me to compare Google DeepMind to OpenAI GPT4. They seem to be very different approaches. Yet, they both have support for language and imagery. So, perhaps they aren&amp;#x27;t that different afterall?&lt;p&gt;- Still waiting to hear more from Google on how they plan to leverage their novel PaLM architecture. The API for it was released a month ago, but, to my awareness, has yet to take the world by storm. (Q: Bard isn&amp;#x27;t powered by PaLM, right?)&lt;p&gt;Overall, I am not convinced this will be massively beneficial. I don&amp;#x27;t trust Google&amp;#x27;s ability to execute at scale in this area. I trust DeepMind&amp;#x27;s team and I trust Google&amp;#x27;s research teams, but Google&amp;#x27;s ability to execute and take products to market has been quite weak thus far. My gut says this action will hamstring DeepMind in bureaucracy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neel8986</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Overall, I am not convinced this will be massively beneficial. I don&amp;#x27;t trust Google&amp;#x27;s ability to execute at scale in this area.&lt;p&gt;Yes the team which literally created transformer and almost all the important open research including Bert, T5, imagen, RLHF,  ViT don&amp;#x27;t have the ability to execute on AI &amp;#x2F;s. Tell me one innovation OpenAI bought into the field. They are good at execution but i havent seen anything novel coming out of them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google DeepMind</title><url>https://www.deepmind.com/blog/announcing-google-deepmind</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>A couple of thoughts:&lt;p&gt;- This does not seem unexpected. Google is panicked about losing the AI race and pushing resources into DeepMind is a logical step to mitigating those fears.&lt;p&gt;- Google has currently given ~300M to Anthropic and has a partnership with them. I assume Google continues to see potential in both avenues and won&amp;#x27;t neglect one AI team for the other. I&amp;#x27;m guessing that DeepMind will be their primary focus because of the numerous, real-world applications already at play.&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s tough for me to compare Google DeepMind to OpenAI GPT4. They seem to be very different approaches. Yet, they both have support for language and imagery. So, perhaps they aren&amp;#x27;t that different afterall?&lt;p&gt;- Still waiting to hear more from Google on how they plan to leverage their novel PaLM architecture. The API for it was released a month ago, but, to my awareness, has yet to take the world by storm. (Q: Bard isn&amp;#x27;t powered by PaLM, right?)&lt;p&gt;Overall, I am not convinced this will be massively beneficial. I don&amp;#x27;t trust Google&amp;#x27;s ability to execute at scale in this area. I trust DeepMind&amp;#x27;s team and I trust Google&amp;#x27;s research teams, but Google&amp;#x27;s ability to execute and take products to market has been quite weak thus far. My gut says this action will hamstring DeepMind in bureaucracy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstx1</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s tough for me to compare Google DeepMind to OpenAI GPT4.&lt;p&gt;Is it tough because one of these is a newly merged and rebranded team and the other is a machine learning model?</text></comment>