I think it's important to qualify that the relevant "game" is not advanced science per se; the game is business whose product is science. The aim isn't to do no

I think it's important to qualify that the relevant "game" is not advanced science per se; the game is business whose product is science. The aim isn't to do novel science; it's to do something which can be advertised as novel science. That isn't to cast aspersions on the personal motivations of Hassabis or any other individual researcher working there (which itself isn't to remove their responsibilities to public understanding); it's to cast aspersions on the structure that they're part of. And it's not to say that they can't produce novel or important science as part of their work there. And it's also not to say that the same tension isn't often present in the science world - but I think it's present to an extreme degree at DeepMind. (Sometimes the distinction between novel science and advertisably novel science is very important, as seems to be the case in the "new materials" research dopylitty linked to in these comments: here https://www.404media.co/google-says-it-discovered-millions-of-new-materials-with-ai-human-researchers/ https://www.404media.co/google-says-it-discovered-millions-o...)