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Re:Is Google’s AI research about to implode? by DavidSumpter on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:08AM (#26236351)
It says the high point is 2017, not the last good paper. There are of course other good papers coming out go Google. But the novelty is dropping and the angst is increasing.
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Re:Is Google’s AI research about to implode? by Isinlor on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:21AM (#26236461)
But this is false as well. Bert was a great breakthrough in NLP in late 2018. IMO bigger breakthrough than AlphaGo, but less media friendly. It has freaking 16 000 citations and it's used all across industry.
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Re:Is Google’s AI research about to implode? by credit_guy on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:15AM (#26236414)
Lots of people think protein folding is a bigger deal than beating the go champion.
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Re:Is Google’s AI research about to implode? by Isinlor on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:35AM (#26236566)
Journalists were asking people from DeepMind why winning in Go is important. They said because it may lead to breakthrough in e.g. medicine. Well it didn't, at least not yet and not directly.

But we still got AlphaFold. And AlphaFold is the type of breakthroughs DeepMind is meant to make. Not playing games.

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Re:Is Google’s AI research about to implode? by dealforager on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:13AM (#26236392)
I think judging the decline of a rapidly evolving field by literally one of the biggest breakthroughs in its entire history is not good. I also don't like clickbait and I think the audience here generally doesn't either, even if you justify it at the end.
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