Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home

Re:Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares ... by Nimitz14 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:19PM (#39085316)

This is not an accurate portayal of these labs. They're all still doing blue sky research.

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Re:Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares ... by whimsicalism on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:09PM (#39092000)

Seems like we have ended up on the wrong side of the HN hivemind, reality be damned.

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Re:Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares ... by HarHarVeryFunny on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:54PM (#39094515)

Well, if you're an insider at one of these companies, then please enlighten us!

What has changed from DeepMind as independent entity to Google DeepMind (following the hivemind LLM "path" to AGI ;) ) ?

What does it mean for FAIR to now be part of a product group ?

I'm sure the CEOs of these companies hope these changes are significant and will better align these research organizations with their corporate goals and marketplace opportunities ...

Is OpenAI pursuing AGI-directed research outside of LLMs, or is it now all hands on deck towards next GPT 5.0 product release ?

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Re:Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares ... by whimsicalism on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:08PM (#39131863)

Google Deepmind is still publishing tons of non-LLM research. The difference is that these directions are being incorporated as Gcloud products faster.

I am not sure about FAIR, but they have been chatbot/LLM/ASR focusd from before this change.

OpenAI has definitely pivoted towards product. ! Most of that pivot is through new growth while still maintaining existing research products, but I wont deny there is a new level of product focus.

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