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The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016
- rawnlq 10y agoIs Brain completely separate from DeepMind?
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- tcai 10y agoYes - they are independent groups with separate projects in different locations (Brain is in Mountain View, DeepMind in London).
- jrheard 10y agoIs there an easy way of characterizing the difference between the two groups - eg brain focuses on A, deepmind focuses on B?
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- gdahl 10y agoWe don't have a simple separation of concerns like that. Brain and DeepMind share a common vision around advancing the state of the art in machine learning in order to have a positive impact on the world. Because machine intelligence is such a huge area, it is useful to have multiple large teams doing research in this area (unlike two product teams making the same product, two research teams in the same area just produces more good research). We follow each other's work and collaborate on a number of projects, although timezone differences sometimes make this hard. I am personally collaborating on a project with a colleague at DeepMind that is a lot of fun to work on. Disclosure: I work for Google on the Brain team.
- zengid 10y agoAs a student hoping to become a software engineer, I'm a little nervous about Googles aggressiveness towards applying ML across many of their products. It makes me wonder: Will the field of software engineering be reduced to plugging ML nodes into client-side interfaces? Could it shrink the demand for engineers?
- jrockway 10y agoIt's a logical concern. There is no reason to assume that today's software engineers are any different than the 1950's coal miners. The world changes, bit by bit, there is no such thing as perfect job security for life.
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- plessthanpt05 10y agoNot really true...tenured professors pretty much have perfect job security for life.
- sanderjd 10y agoThat is similar to coal miners unions providing jobs for life. That is, it's only a job for life if the business model it relies on continues flourishing. Higher education looks like a more stable employer than software engineering, but I definitely wouldn't be confident in saying that it will look like it does today, 50 years from now.
- ilaksh 10y agoPersonally I think that within X years (could be only 10, or 5, or probably less) we will see human-level AGI. This is because the grounded (based on granular sense/motor) deep learning systems such as Deep Mind are being applied in varied virtual environments and some with gradual development of skills and knowledge. This type of approach will enable truly general agents. So we better hope that the BCIs develop quickly as well.
- dmix 10y agoThis post referenced a NYTimes article about Google's AI work on Translate, and the brain team in general, that I missed previously. It's a good read. "The Great AI Awakening" > The new incarnation, to the pleasant surprise of Google’s own engineers, had been completed in only nine months. The A.I. system had demonstrated overnight improvements roughly equal to the total gains the old one had accrued over its entire lifetime. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awa...
- NumberCruncher 10y agoThis is a really great article.
- philip142au 10y agoI wish they would make a society of AI brains inside the computer which talk to each other by sending documents around, one AI brain might have a job such as checking the document is correct. A large society of AI brains. Secondly, a single AI brain is composed of many small AI brains in a society. Also those brains, recursively down forever recursive.
- johnsmith21006 10y agoGoogle voice is rumored to be getting a major refresh. Will we get the new translate capabilities built-in to Google Voice in real time. Basically it would be the universal communicator. I do not need the functionality personally but I want to see it in my lifetime.
- cercatrova 10y agoSkype does that already I think