DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI

Re:DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach... by rich_sasha on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:38AM (#27458405)

I’m stressing the business part. YouTube is a loss-making business year after year. Deep Mind gloss doesn’t seem to change that.

If indeed it even is Deep Mind making those improvements, Google has lots of other ML groups, such as Google Brain, and these are more directly focused on Google products.

There’s no denying their academic success, or game playing etc, but as far as I can see, the data centre cooling bit is the only palpable (public) business success.

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Re:DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach... by tarvaina on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:38AM (#27459948)

YouTube made $6B revenue in Q1. [1] While they don’t release profit numbers, it would be pretty surprising if they were negative.

Did you mean to write DeepMind instead? If so, I don’t disagree.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/youtube-could-soon-equal-net...

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Re:DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach... by mirker on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:41AM (#27460632)

Deep mind’s protein folding algorithm is probably worth a chunk of change. As far as I know, they’ve been holding onto the secret sauce rather than publishing it.

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Re:DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach... by eru on Thursday June 10, 2021 @05:16AM (#27458623)

How do you know that YouTube is a loss making business?

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