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Isn't it "just" a matter of Jeff Dean (& co) leaving, Hassabis replacing Dean, and Kavukcuoglu replacing Hassabis ? A massive shake up for sure, but why do you
by HarHarVeryFunny 3mo ago
Isn't it "just" a matter of Jeff Dean (& co) leaving, Hassabis replacing Dean, and Kavukcuoglu replacing Hassabis ?
A massive shake up for sure, but why do you see it as separate events merely timed to coincide ?
- aix1 3mo agoSo there are two events here: Event 1 - Jeff & co leaving. Event 2 - Demis stepping down. DeepMind doesn't need a "chair" and "Alphabet's chief scientist" is a bullshit title that Jeff invented for himself when he moved from Google Research to GDM, to make it look like we wasn't abandoning the former for the latter. The third change is basically ratifying the status quo, since Koray has been de factor running GDM for a while now (and directly reporting to Sundar in addition to reporting to Demis, who in turn also reported to Sundar - quite some triangle there).
- aix1 3mo agoOne detail I missed is that Koray's new title is "SVP of Google DeepMind"[1], i.e. identical to his old title. So, basically, the third change is even more of a no-op than I thought. It seems pretty clear that GDM will no longer have a CEO. [1] https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/ https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/n...