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I believe you, but just for the sake of it: What AI research has had business value from Google in the last years that you could sell?

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Isinlor 6y ago
AlphaFold may bring millions if not billions to DeepMind, Google and Alphabet. Figuring out structure of a single protein may cost up to 100 000 dollars. Bert as applied to search from late 2019: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.google/products/search/sea...
- Rochus 6y ago
  Time will show; winning the competition was just the first step.
  - Isinlor 6y ago
    Indeed, that is why I'm saying "it may", but people are crazy if they expect that basic research will make billions of profits a year after. It normally takes some 10 to 20 years for basic research to produce profits. mRNA vaccines are technology from 1990 and are first time used commercially on mass scale on humans 30 years later.
FartyMcFarter 6y ago
WaveNet is one example: "Google Assistant adds 9 new AI-generated voices": https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/18/google-assistant-gains-9-new-voices-generated-by-ai/ https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/18/google-assistant-gains-9-... Data center cooling is another one: "How Google is Using AI for Data Center Cooling": https://www.bmc.com/blogs/data-center-cooling/ https://www.bmc.com/blogs/data-center-cooling/
tinyhouse 6y ago
Are you kidding me? Everything they do pretty much. Google search results, Gmail Compose, Google Translate, etc etc.
karmasimida 6y ago
BERT has been powering all Google's search traffic at this moment: https://searchengineland.com/google-bert-used-on-almost-every-english-query-342193 https://searchengineland.com/google-bert-used-on-almost-ever... It is THE biggest change that Google's search algorithm had ever been through, I would assume. And to push such a fundamentally different model to ALL their English traffic is pretty telling itself that how much an improvement Google had been seeing. This is easily billions of ROI for Google, if not tens of billions.
sgt101 6y ago
Alphafold is transformational for life sciences. I find it hard to articulate how much it's worth - maybe the sum of the top three life sciences companies today? Honestly - the discussion is over, the AI folks won.

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Isinlor 6y ago

AlphaFold may bring millions if not billions to DeepMind, Google and Alphabet. Figuring out structure of a single protein may cost up to 100 000 dollars. Bert as applied to search from late 2019: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.google/products/search/sea...

Rochus 6y ago
Time will show; winning the competition was just the first step.
- Isinlor 6y ago
  Indeed, that is why I'm saying "it may", but people are crazy if they expect that basic research will make billions of profits a year after. It normally takes some 10 to 20 years for basic research to produce profits. mRNA vaccines are technology from 1990 and are first time used commercially on mass scale on humans 30 years later.

FartyMcFarter 6y ago

WaveNet is one example: "Google Assistant adds 9 new AI-generated voices": https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/18/google-assistant-gains-9-new-voices-generated-by-ai/ https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/18/google-assistant-gains-9-... Data center cooling is another one: "How Google is Using AI for Data Center Cooling": https://www.bmc.com/blogs/data-center-cooling/ https://www.bmc.com/blogs/data-center-cooling/

tinyhouse 6y ago

Are you kidding me? Everything they do pretty much. Google search results, Gmail Compose, Google Translate, etc etc.

karmasimida 6y ago

BERT has been powering all Google's search traffic at this moment: https://searchengineland.com/google-bert-used-on-almost-every-english-query-342193 https://searchengineland.com/google-bert-used-on-almost-ever... It is THE biggest change that Google's search algorithm had ever been through, I would assume. And to push such a fundamentally different model to ALL their English traffic is pretty telling itself that how much an improvement Google had been seeing. This is easily billions of ROI for Google, if not tens of billions.

sgt101 6y ago

Alphafold is transformational for life sciences. I find it hard to articulate how much it's worth - maybe the sum of the top three life sciences companies today? Honestly - the discussion is over, the AI folks won.