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I don't disagree, but GoogleX is _not_ Google's research arm. Google Research actually produces very cool stuff that's beneficial to the company, and does so at

I don't disagree, but GoogleX is _not_ Google's research arm. Google Research actually produces very cool stuff that's beneficial to the company, and does so at a pretty rapid clip. GoogleX, on the other hand, takes bold, but not really research-worthy ideas and milks them for PR for years before they quietly die.

hartator 10y ago
Do you know what was the lastest cool thing by google research?
- infinite8s 10y ago
  It's mostly CS related. Most of their big data systems were initiated by the Research group.
  - 1_2__3 10y ago
    That is not true.
- gwern 10y ago
  The very latest cool thing by Google Research or Deepmind? That would be applying reinforcement learning to datacenters to cut cooling bills by 40%.
- elgoog1212 10y ago
  Where do I even begin. :-) State of the art achievements in object recognition, speech recognition, reinforcement learning, natural language parsing, natural language understanding, and so on and so forth, across the board. They employ basically all the prominent names in deep learning, except for Yann LeCun and a handful of others. Their research team is worth its weight in gold.
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