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AI Mafia Network – An interactive visualization

109 points by dipakwani 1y ago

dipakwani 1y ago
After listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Google AI, I wanted to map how many of today’s major AI players have their roots in Google. I built a network-style flowchart that visualizes this “AI Mafia”. The goal was to map how deeply Google’s early AI efforts radiated towards current companies, viz, OpenAI, DeepMind, Cohere, etc. Each node links people and organizations mentioned in the episode, with logos for clarity. There is still some UX work that can be done. Do explore the graph and I am sure you would also be interested in seeing the PayPal Mafia playing an important role, and how so many logos link back to Google (Brain). Edit: Podcast link: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company
- amelius 1y ago
  Do you have a link to the podcast?
  - dipakwani 1y ago
    Sure: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company. Added in the credits(hamburger) menu as well.
huflungdung 1y ago
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sghiassy 1y ago
What’s the underling framework/website used to make the mind map?
- dipakwani 1y ago
  I created the map as an Obsidian canvas. (It is stored as a json file internally). I am using https://js.cytoscape.org/ https://js.cytoscape.org/ to render this json file on the website. I tried out of the box obsidian canvas publishers, but they did not work. Hence the misaligned nodes.
  - sghiassy 1y ago
    Good stuff! Thx :)
  - scottydelta 1y ago
    https://kumu.io https://kumu.io This is a popular and an old platform to make network graphs
hbarka 1y ago
The PayPal “mafia” is cringey enough already, please enough of this word to describe a cabal. You’re also missing women in this graph, there are women.
thro1 1y ago
Can't say about the content so far as I can't read it - letters are to small (so much space wasted in that boxes, still clip letters) and with browser zoom 200% blurry (on 27" 4k), using that page special zoom can't see the whole picture - neither scroll it with my Scrollpoint mouse beacuse now it's zooming :( Why I'm forced to interact with it in some unusual way, instead of let me just have a look or print it - is it made in such way for some purpose (document programmer has some, but no DTP/design skills - so DIY) ?

109 points by dipakwani 1y ago

After listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Google AI, I wanted to map how many of today’s major AI players have their roots in Google. I built a network-style flowchart that visualizes this “AI Mafia”. The goal was to map how deeply Google’s early AI efforts radiated towards current companies, viz, OpenAI, DeepMind, Cohere, etc. Each node links people and organizations mentioned in the episode, with logos for clarity. There is still some UX work that can be done. Do explore the graph and I am sure you would also be interested in seeing the PayPal Mafia playing an important role, and how so many logos link back to Google (Brain). Edit: Podcast link: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company

amelius 1y ago
Do you have a link to the podcast?
- dipakwani 1y ago
  Sure: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company. Added in the credits(hamburger) menu as well.

huflungdung 1y ago

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sghiassy 1y ago

What’s the underling framework/website used to make the mind map?

dipakwani 1y ago
I created the map as an Obsidian canvas. (It is stored as a json file internally). I am using https://js.cytoscape.org/ https://js.cytoscape.org/ to render this json file on the website. I tried out of the box obsidian canvas publishers, but they did not work. Hence the misaligned nodes.
- sghiassy 1y ago
  Good stuff! Thx :)
- scottydelta 1y ago
  https://kumu.io https://kumu.io This is a popular and an old platform to make network graphs

hbarka 1y ago

The PayPal “mafia” is cringey enough already, please enough of this word to describe a cabal. You’re also missing women in this graph, there are women.

thro1 1y ago

Can't say about the content so far as I can't read it - letters are to small (so much space wasted in that boxes, still clip letters) and with browser zoom 200% blurry (on 27" 4k), using that page special zoom can't see the whole picture - neither scroll it with my Scrollpoint mouse beacuse now it's zooming :( Why I'm forced to interact with it in some unusual way, instead of let me just have a look or print it - is it made in such way for some purpose (document programmer has some, but no DTP/design skills - so DIY) ?