[HN Gopher] Google DeepMind Shifts from Research Lab to AI Produ...
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Google DeepMind Shifts from Research Lab to AI Product Factory
Author : kjhughes
Score : 23 points
Date : 2024-06-17 22:02 UTC (57 minutes ago)
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| l1n wrote:
| https://archive.is/5XdU8
| jsemrau wrote:
| "The Overviews launch didn't go well." understatement of the
| year.
| kevindamm wrote:
| One thing that classic Google did right was embed researchers
| into product groups. It's true there were always some teams that
| were pure research but for the most part researchers were working
| within a product group.
|
| Then some acquisitions and internal musical chairs and it became
| less like that. Now I'm not all doom and gloom like this article
| (although with DeepMind why not leave well enough alone? They do
| excellent research). But, it does seem suboptimal to pivot all
| the way to AI Product Factory... were there no other existing
| product factories they could have turned instead?
| radicaldreamer wrote:
| Why? Attach seasoned product teams from Google to the research
| org and have experienced PMs paired with experienced EMs launch
| products.
|
| Trying to transition a research org into a product org is going
| to be needlessly painful, especially since the research org needs
| to be firing on all cylinders in this hyper-competitive space.
| curious_cat_163 wrote:
| > While no one is getting as much computing power as they want,
| the supply is tighter for teams engaged in pure research, say the
| former employee and others familiar with the lab.
|
| Good! Maybe they will focus researching how to make these things
| more compute efficient.
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