They show what it can do, people in Google can use it,.there are papers.
Google publishes plenty of other ml based papers.
Assuming in any way that Google might loose it's reputation because of imagine is very very far fetched.
Re:AlphaCode Attention Visualization
by Al-Khwarizmi on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:00AM
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Not losing its reputation as a whole, but losing the reputation of being the leader in this field? Sure.
When they released BERT there was no doubt that they were the leaders. Even laymen heard about it.
What AI advances do laymen most talk about now? DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT. AlphaCode and LaMDA gave some headlines but not even close. Everyone is too busy trying ChatGPT to pay attention to those.
Re:AlphaCode Attention Visualization
by alphabetting on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:37PM
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Does elite AI talent really care what layman new to AI think? If so, problem for Google but I doubt they do.
For example, as an AI researcher, I can't consider Imagen/Parti to be the state of the art if all we have are cherry-picked examples and we can't verify anything. For all practical intents and purposes, they are just vaporware, and the state of the art are models like Stable Diffusion or DALL-E.
Of course they are free to keep them that way, but they risk losing their reputation as AI/ML/NLP leaders.