Right, but this has less to do with the fundamentals of ML as a technology, rather than the less sexy explanation of better management practices.
Re:Google I/O 2017
by AndrewKemendo on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:58PM
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They are inextricably linked. If you organize your company around ML, as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple have stated they are doing, then yes it does have to do with the fundamentals of ML.
Advances and implementations of ML is driving the creation and iteration of products for these companies, as well as helping them run their companies and evaluate where to go next - follow the data as it were.
So it is a critical point that every one of their CEOs has outlined in clear detail over the past few years.
My entire point is that they aren't ignoring any spaces, they have all future spaces accounted for by having their tentacles in literally everything possible that could be future tech.
Bldinsides come from different industries, so they need to cover their bases from all directions, so that's what they all have done with their projects, products, investments in...AI, Energy, Biology, Transportation, Infrastructure, Waste Disposal, Agriculture the list goes on.
The time of the non-ubiquitous firm is over.
AFGAM aren't software companies, they are innovation conglomerates. I mean why do you think google changed to Alphabet?