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Isn't it a little bizarre just how much time, money, and brainpower Google puts into projects that have no hope of replacing established businesses (who are oft
by dekhn 4y ago
Isn't it a little bizarre just how much time, money, and brainpower Google puts into projects that have no hope of replacing established businesses (who are often doing production versions of the Google research already)?
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- samdcbu 4y agoThis is AI research, not product development. The project’s goal was to apply deep reinforcement learning to a complex and varied real world task. Google has no desire to sell trash sorting robots.
- dekhn 4y agoGoogle is cutting unnecessary spending across the company (including firing long-term, high-productivity employees) to save money. If Google doesn't want to sell trash robots, why fund this (expensive) work? Why not just shut down this division and instead, keep your programmers who work on ads, search, gmail, and other projects that bring money to google?