Citation needed?
Ask and ye shall receive:
“Based in part on his work with Hinton, Sutskever was hired by Google. There, he implemented a neural-network-driven approach to language translation that produced fewer errors than competing efforts. His work provided the basis for a major upgrade to Google Translate. “Researchers didn’t believe that neural networks could do translation, so it was a big surprise when they could,” he says.”
https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/heard-it-t...
Hinton left last week as well.
Google was good at attracting and retaining the best and brightest. Now they aren’t.