Earlier at present we introduced some adjustments that may speed up our progress in AI and assist us develop extra succesful AI programs safely and responsibly. Under is a recap of what DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shared with staff:
Hello Workforce
Once we launched DeepMind again in 2010, many individuals thought common AI was a farfetched science fiction know-how that was a long time away from being a actuality.
Now, we stay in a time by which AI analysis and know-how is advancing exponentially. Within the coming years, AI – and finally AGI – has the potential to drive one of many biggest social, financial and scientific transformations in historical past.
That’s why at present Sundar is announcing that DeepMind and the Mind staff from Google Analysis will likely be becoming a member of forces as a single, centered unit referred to as Google DeepMind. Combining our skills and efforts will speed up our progress in the direction of a world by which AI helps clear up the largest challenges going through humanity, and I’m extremely excited to be main this unit and dealing with all of you to construct it. Collectively, in shut collaboration with our improbable colleagues throughout the Google Product Areas, we’ve an actual alternative to ship AI analysis and merchandise that dramatically enhance the lives of billions of individuals, rework industries, advance science, and serve numerous communities.
By creating Google DeepMind, I imagine we are able to get to that future quicker. Constructing ever extra succesful and common AI, safely and responsibly, calls for that we clear up a few of the hardest scientific and engineering challenges of our time. For that, we have to work with higher pace, stronger collaboration and execution, and to simplify the best way we make selections to concentrate on attaining the largest influence.
By Google DeepMind, we’re bringing collectively our world-class expertise in AI with the computing energy, infrastructure and sources to create the subsequent era of AI breakthroughs and merchandise throughout Google and Alphabet, and to do that in a daring and accountable approach. The analysis advances from the exceptional Mind and DeepMind groups laid a lot of the foundations of the present AI business, from Deep Reinforcement Studying to Transformers, and the work we’re going to be doing now as a part of this new mixed unit will create the subsequent wave of world-changing breakthroughs.
Sundar, Jeff Dean, James Manyika, and I’ve constructed a improbable partnership as we’ve labored to coordinate our efforts over current months. I’m wanting ahead to working intently with Eli Collins, who will likely be becoming a member of my leads staff as VP of Product, and Zoubin Ghahramani who will likely be becoming a member of the analysis management staff reporting to Koray Kavukcuoglu. We’re additionally creating a brand new Scientific Board for Google DeepMind to supervise analysis progress and path of the unit, which will likely be led by Koray and can have representatives from throughout the orgs. Jeff, Koray, Zoubin, Shane and myself will likely be finalising the composition of this board collectively within the coming days.
I’m positive you should have a lot of questions on what this new unit will appear like for you, your groups, and all of us, and we will likely be working exhausting to supply readability for everybody as quickly as potential. Please learn Sundar’s observe, and tune in to the city corridor assembly tomorrow.
I’m thrilled to be on this journey with you and look ahead to seeing everybody quickly.
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