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luma
on April 20, 2023
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Google DeepMind
Their existing “all research/no product” approach is becoming increasingly untenable. This had to happen if Google wants to remain a going concern.
nwoli
on April 20, 2023
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Transformers were fundamental research that ended up having huge side benefits. (Google has plenty of money to keep spending on fundamental research, especially focused on smart things like ML.)
futureshock
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Inventing transformers may prove to be Google's undoing. Being a research paper factory doesn't seem to be good for shareholders.
politician
on April 20, 2023
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Still, inventing XMLHttpRequest wasn't Microsoft's undoing, but for many years we suspected it might be. This might be a similar situation.
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