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Re:Why Bell Labs Worked by sidibe on Sunday May 11, 2025 @07:13PM (#43958086)
"And they shut it down. In 2023"

You mean they renamed it/merged it with another group that has similar freedom and focus on research

Re:Why Bell Labs Worked by nullhole on Sunday May 11, 2025 @07:49PM (#43958268)
What’s the name of the other group?
Re:Why Bell Labs Worked by zy0n911 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @08:01PM (#43958339)
Deepmind
Re:Why Bell Labs Worked by sandkoan on Sunday May 11, 2025 @07:57PM (#43958310)
DeepMind.
Re:Why Bell Labs Worked by esafak on Sunday May 11, 2025 @10:12PM (#43959037)
Deepmind. I'd say it's actually more reputable than Google Brain.
Re:Why Bell Labs Worked by zipy124 on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:20AM (#43961429)
A decent amount of people seem to be unhappy/leaving deep-mind due to the forced focus on AI and lack of freedom currently though. Therefore the point above still stands.
Re:Why Bell Labs Worked by querez on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:23AM (#43962156)
As someone who worked at both Brain and DeepMind: their cultures were very different. Brain was bottom-up, open-field research whatever you want/care for. DeepMind was much more narrowly focused and massively more top-down.