[nightski]

It's not part of the research process. Being part of the search process would involve a publication and sharing code/data/results/methods. It's not research unless it can be verified by peers.

This is just a marketing fluff piece that does not benefit anyone and is ego stroking at best.

[lassenordahl]

Hm yeah - I think you and I just have differing opinions on the research process. I'd be a bit more vague, and define the publication process as something similar to you.

I still think things like this are important, and at least give folks a bit of time to ideate on what will be possible in a few years. Of course having the model or architecture on hand would be nice, but I'm not holding that against Google here.