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Michel H. Devoret, Chief Scientist at Google Quantum AI, and in April 2020 John M. Martinis resigned from Google after being reassigned to an advisory role. [0]
by dataviz1000 1y ago
Michel H. Devoret, Chief Scientist at Google Quantum AI, and in April 2020 John M. Martinis resigned from Google after being reassigned to an advisory role. [0]
Sounds like there was some politics shenanigans between them where Martinis was moved into a useless role and took the hint at the height of covid lockdown.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Devoret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Devoret
- ctenb 1y agoYou linked the wrong article
- dataviz1000 1y agoHe left because the reorg stripped his hardware decision authority, and he wouldn’t stay without control to drive the technical plan.[0] He kept working on the problem. The question now looking back over 6 years is did Google make a mistake. I've seen this at IBM and other large research divisions where people who did something significant 20 or 30 years in fields like AI become stagnant burning tens and hundreds of millions. There was a political battle and Martinis got pushed out. The question I have is did the people who pushed him out know the path forward in quantum computing or did they just know how to play office politics licking the correct behinds. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2020/04/30/googles-top-quantum-scientist-explains-in-detail-why-he-resigned/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2020/04/30/googles...