Google DeepMind
April 20th, 2023Via: 9to5 Google:
DeepMind is regarded to be one of the top machine learning and artificial intelligence research labs. After being an Alphabet company for the past several years, it’s now being folded in to form “Google DeepMind.”
The new unit encompasses DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research. Collective accomplishments from the past decade include “AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequence to sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, training and deploying large scale ML models.”
This merger is meant to “accelerate [Google’s] progress in AI and help us develop more capable AI systems more safely and responsibly,” specifically general AI systems and “research that will help power the next generation of our products and services.”
It’s funny (in a gallow’s humor sort of way) that we are so obviously hurtling toward an insane destination where the dysfunction of technology will eventually grow at an exponential rate, and yet we would never dream of stopping. “It CAN be done, and we just KNOW it will be SO COOL — we have to keep going!” No presence, no harmony, just the relentless pursuit of control and self-worship. What a species…
Some of us would never dream of starting this rush to self-destruction. “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”