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Another way to interpret this (and I don't mean it pejoratively at all): Demis has been optimizing his chances for winning a nobel prize for quite some time now
by dekhn 11mo ago
Another way to interpret this (and I don't mean it pejoratively at all): Demis has been optimizing his chances for winning a nobel prize for quite some time now. Releasing the data increased that chance. He also would have been fairly certain that the commercial value of the predictions was fairly low (simply predicting structures accurately was never the rate-limiting step for downstream things like drug discovery). And that he and his team would have a commercial advantage by developing better proprietary models using them to make discoveries.
- tim333 11mo agoAlso since selling Deepmind to Google, it's Google's shareholder's money really.
- sgt101 11mo agoI think that's a rather conspiratorial way of framing it. I think it's more about someone trying to do the most good that was possible at that time. I doubt he cares much about prizes or money at this point.
- dekhn 11mo agoIt's hardly a conspiracy to use strategy and intelligence to maximize the probability of achieving the outcome you desire. He doesn't have to care much about prizes or money at this point: he won his prize and he gets all the hardware and talent he needs.