alt Hacker News> Hassabis seems to have been pushed aside.
Yeah he seemed too reasonable to me, relative to the fervor. Whoever ends up in charge needs to do a lot of frothing to catch up to the ferver that would justify their valuations and investments
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WarmWash • today at 9:34 PM
Google's capex is to capture the compute purchases from the other labs. The amount they are spending on Gemini is probably shockingly low...and hence researchers leaving for better watered pastures.
HarHarVeryFunny • today at 8:47 PM
Probably not going to happen, but I'd love to see Isomorphic Labs separate from Alphabet with Hassabis still as CEO. He's too pure minded to be at company like Google.
kridsdale1 • today at 9:21 PM
Same thing happened to Yan LeCun.
Real scientists are skeptical. Wall St and the people who serve it don’t like that.
> Whoever ends up in charge needs to do a lot of frothing
I don't get the impression from interviews that Kavukcuoglu is that guy - he seems like a safe pair of hands, but not someone that is on a mission.
OTOH I don't even think this is the right race to be in.