Feels good but is useless. Google has its own AI research operation that's not the same as DeepMind. But even if it didn't, all they'd have to do is wait for s

Feels good but is useless. Google has its own AI research operation that's not the same as DeepMind. But even if it didn't, all they'd have to do is wait for some third party academics to publish a paper that improved slightly on a DeepMind paper, and then they could use it and say the "technology" didn't come from DeepMind. After all, where does tech come from? Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that.