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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by whitegrape on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:18PM (#11016022)
Nerds have known for years that Google is really an AI company, but do investors really see things that way yet? The stock didn't go up with the announcement of AlphaGo, though that could just be because they think that particular AI work won't give Google any competitive advantage in future revenue...
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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by azinman2 on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:16PM (#11016441)
It's been a machine learning company. We'll see what the shift to AI looks like, but those are two very different things.
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