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That advertising company did create software that beat the best Go player in the world a decade earlier than estimates.

They also created the most power NN processing silicon that uses far less power than anyone else. A pod is doing 11.5 quadrillion FLOPs is pretty impressive. Just sayin.

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Sure, stipulated. Google has demonstrated conclusively that if you throw enormous amounts of money and compute infrastructure at problems, you can make progress. Those are still engineering developments, not the kind of groundbreaking research that happens at universities or national labs.

It's not even the kind of fundamental research that places like Xerox PARC, IBM, or Bell Labs used to invest in.

Frankly, it's kind of insulting to imply that a one-year Google residency would be "more advanced" than years-long graduate programs at places like MIT, Caltech or CMU.

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