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by krn 1148 days ago
I am a big fan of Alphabet as a company, but this is how I read the first two paragraphs...

> When Shane Legg and I launched DeepMind back in 2010, many people thought general AI was a farfetched science fiction technology that was decades away from being a reality.

Translation: "We were not able to see what the founders of OpenAI saw back in 2015".

> Now, we live in a time in which AI research and technology is advancing exponentially. In the coming years, AI - and ultimately AGI - has the potential to drive one of the greatest social, economic and scientific transformations in history.

Translation: "Now we live in a time in which AI research and technology has advanced exponentially thanks to the great achievements by our competitors – and we clearly feel left behind."
1 comments
auggierose 1148 days ago
Right. You know that DeepMind did AlphaGo, right? It made its entrance in 2015.
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krn 1148 days ago
And how does that compare with what OpenAI has accomplished since 2015?

I'm not blaming DeepMind here.

It was Google's job not to start loosing ground to Microsoft in the age of AI.

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auggierose 1148 days ago
Personally, I feel AlphaGo was the biggest deal ever. It put AI truly on the map. OpenAI is just a corollary to that, and would not exist without DeepMind in the first place.
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nicetryguy 1148 days ago
> Personally, I feel AlphaGo was the biggest deal ever.

Right, but the cashier at McDonalds is using ChatGPT for night school.

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krn 1148 days ago
That's probably true, because OpenAI was formed just two months after AlphaGo defeated the European Go champion Fan Hui.

But Google has missed a lot of opportunities since then, and is now trying to catch up.

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scottyah 1148 days ago
What has OpenAI accomplished other than a lot more publicity for AI? If I've been following the story right, Google and a few others have created all the tech breakthroughs and OpenAI just created a way for common folk to play with it then sold out to Microsoft.
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krn 1148 days ago
Microsoft has been an investor in OpenAI since 2019[1].

Now Samsung is considering replacing Google with Bing as the default search engine on all Galaxy phones[2].

I think that's a big accomplishment for OpenAI. And it's still and independent company.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft-extend-partners...

[2] https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-galaxy-phones-tablets...

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