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Give credit where credit is due. This is DeepMind's research, and Google acquired them in 2014. Of course, Google gave them a lot of resources to train AlphaGo.
by esturk 11y ago
Give credit where credit is due. This is DeepMind's research, and Google acquired them in 2014. Of course, Google gave them a lot of resources to train AlphaGo. But let's not bury the subsidiary, or I guess they would both be subs to Alphabet now making the two even less related.
- gniv 11y agoDeepMind is part of Google.
- bluecmd 11y agoWell, 2 of the authors are from Google itself, so it's not fair to say it's 100% DeepMind as well.
- drjesusphd 11y agoIf they wanted ultimate credit, they shouldn't have sold. They made a judgment call and part of that is Google gets a share of the congratulations.
- Cyph0n 11y agoYes, but the team is Google DeepMind, not "Google research team".
- timothya 11y agoAccording to the pre-match interview[0], the AlphaGo project is about two years old, and started out as a collaboration between two members of DeepMind and a member of the Google Brain team (Google's deep learning team which pre-dates the DeepMind acquisition by several years, according to Wikipedia). So really, AlphaGo is a combined effort that was always a part of Google, and I think it's pretty clear that resources provided by Google (money, equipment, and tooling) in addition to the techniques developed by both Google and DeepMind made this project a reality. I think they both deserve a lot of credit, certainly, but I wouldn't say that the credit is all that misplaced here. [0]: https://youtu.be/qUAmTYHEyM8?t=1201 https://youtu.be/qUAmTYHEyM8?t=1201