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Employees have said that its amazing to work with very smart people there. That being said, I'd be a bit worried that the ultimate owner of the AI work done th

Employees have said that its amazing to work with very smart people there. That being said, I'd be a bit worried that the ultimate owner of the AI work done there is Google. THAT being said, Google has been very open-sourcy about their research, unlike some... ahem Open ahem AI companies

crakenzak 5y ago
Its amazing having a company with the technology & innovation focus such as Google funding, pushing, and publishing AI research. Everyone wins, and will continue to do so until the research labs at Google, Facebook, Apple etc... abandon their openness culture -- which I don't see happening anytime soon mostly because of the attitudes and culture of openness of the engineers & researches at said labs. Great times we live in...
- wiz21c 5y ago
  Vast and important domain of knowledge are now under IP protection. It means that society will evolve only at the speed the owner want it to. You could argue that it is better than nothing. But this you will only know if 50 years when others will have caught up and we'll realize (or not) that things could have been much faster if stuff was more open. Google opens up its articles, codes, but sure not its infrastructure. Now does public funded efforts do better, or would do better if they had the financial power of Google ? That's the question. I believe so, but that's rather an idealist point of view.
  - littlestymaar 5y ago
    > Now does public funded efforts do better, or would do better if they had the financial power of Google ? The 1930-1980 era provides a convincing answer to this question, and the answer is a big yes.
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- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago
  >which I don't see happening anytime soon mostly because of the attitudes and culture of openness of the engineers & researches at said labs. Why, this time, would it be different?
amelius 5y ago
Google's text-to-speech and speech-to-text models are still closed source ...
tziki 5y ago
Makes me wonder how much DeepMind could make just by keeping their protein folding proprietary and charging per use.

crakenzak 5y ago

Its amazing having a company with the technology & innovation focus such as Google funding, pushing, and publishing AI research. Everyone wins, and will continue to do so until the research labs at Google, Facebook, Apple etc... abandon their openness culture -- which I don't see happening anytime soon mostly because of the attitudes and culture of openness of the engineers & researches at said labs. Great times we live in...

wiz21c 5y ago
Vast and important domain of knowledge are now under IP protection. It means that society will evolve only at the speed the owner want it to. You could argue that it is better than nothing. But this you will only know if 50 years when others will have caught up and we'll realize (or not) that things could have been much faster if stuff was more open. Google opens up its articles, codes, but sure not its infrastructure. Now does public funded efforts do better, or would do better if they had the financial power of Google ? That's the question. I believe so, but that's rather an idealist point of view.
- littlestymaar 5y ago
  > Now does public funded efforts do better, or would do better if they had the financial power of Google ? The 1930-1980 era provides a convincing answer to this question, and the answer is a big yes.
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rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago
>which I don't see happening anytime soon mostly because of the attitudes and culture of openness of the engineers & researches at said labs. Why, this time, would it be different?

amelius 5y ago

Google's text-to-speech and speech-to-text models are still closed source ...

tziki 5y ago

Makes me wonder how much DeepMind could make just by keeping their protein folding proprietary and charging per use.