Re:Apple to Start Publishing AI Research
by deelowe on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:24AM
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I can't romanticize about bell labs simply because the rest of the company had shady business practices? Huh?
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Re:Apple to Start Publishing AI Research
by ghaff on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:17PM
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Bell Labs was able to exist in large part because AT&T was a quasi-government regulated monopoly. You couldn't really have one without the other. (And I'm not sure I'd even say at&t had shady business practices. But they were a de facto monopoly.)