3 ms·
The whole point of the article is that the data-driven approach turns out to be a lot more robust that existing academic initiatives. Could anyone else have don
by hyperbovine 16y ago
The whole point of the article is that the data-driven approach turns out to be a lot more robust that existing academic initiatives. Could anyone else have done it? No. So I think it is fair to say that they developed this technology.
- orijing 16y agoThat's not the "whole point of the article". The "approaches" are academic in origin; the difference is that Google has more data to train those approaches. Their "approaches" are not different from "existing academic initiatives." Academia often deals with issues like "how to deal with sparsity" of data (i.e. smoothing); at Google, those issues are less important. Having data doesn't not mean having developed the technology.