Re:Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey
by smoldesu on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:38PM
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FWIW, Facebook's AI division has made some pretty insane contributions to the field relative to Google or Apple. I wouldn't disregard the stuff they're doing, even if I personally don't have a stake in Facebook or Meta's success.
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Re:Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey
by alecco on Monday February 06, 2023 @04:03PM
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If things keep the current trend, Deepmind, Meta AI, and many other remarkable labs will be this generation's Xerox PARC.
OpenAI and Stability-AI will be be Apple and Microsoft.
Re:Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey
by vagabund on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:09PM
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Like what? Basically every research breakthrough from industry has come through Google.
Re:Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey
by smoldesu on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:24PM
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Facebook was first to the punch on AI photo tagging and facial recognition in their systems, but they also did a lot of foundational research on GANs and self-supervised learning. Plus, they do a lot of other tangential research around language and life sciences that might not get funded otherwise.
Some of it is marketing bullshit, but Facebook seems to have a genuine interest in pushing the field forward. Admittedly Google is also not the best example though, seeing as they're the Tensorflow maintainers :p