[mrbungie]

The whole point is that all the progress you mention is worth peanuts to Google's shareholders. Hence this decision and blog post about it.

If anything it allowed competitors to raise above Google.

PS: Not saying Deepmind's research is not worthy, nor that this is fair. Just that it appears that Alphabet/Google (and by extension Deepmind) is being reminded that its main goal is making money.

[pb7]

Ah, classic damned if you, damned if you don't.

Search is being ruined by the pursuit of maximizing ad revenue but AI research is being wasted because it's not used in pursuit of maximizing revenue. Can't really win, huh? There should be nothing but gratitude that Google uses its ad revenue to pay for research that greatly benefits everyone.

[mrbungie]

I'm not judging. I'm grateful of Alphabet/Google and that its research is being extremely useful in AI/ML, just saying shareholders may not think that way.