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I think the Deepmind guys are ahead technologically because of Google's vast talent pool and computing resources, but they are scared of what they are making. The CEO of Deepmind was considering that they should stop publishing research because bad people might use it. If it wasn't for the Open AI guys putting pressure on them, they'd just toy with this stuff forever and never release anything.

I wonder what Larry and Sergei think of all this. Has Sergei said anything lately? Larry has been on a remote island in Fiji for years now. It seems with all this exciting geeky AI stuff they should be passionate about the business, but as far as I can tell they aren't very engaged.

Edit: Here's a recent article. Apparently, Sergei is back working on things for the first time since 2019. Larry and Sergei also checked in on the AI strategy in December: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/google-co-found...