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This wasn't Google, it was DeepMind. Google doesn't get any credit for this. I tried to start this project at Google but it conflicted with the Google Health team's goals.

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Even if it’s a sister project, it’s great PR for Google. I accept more ads from Google as it gives back so much in healthcare. I wish Meta would do the same, I wouldn’t care if it’s part of Facebook or not. GMail was something similar at the start: just do something good, to make more people like Google.

As for your own project I’m sorry for you: there are no more 20% projects, like in the old times :(

Its owned by google (alphabet) i think they deserve some props for it.

google is owned by alphabet. DM and Google are siblings.

Most people say "google" to mean alphabet.

True, but applying that logic in order to give credit to Google is wrong, which is the point of the comment above.

If one wanted to make a case for that, arguably it's DrepMind's major infrastructure resource consumption that would give Google some credit. I can certainly point to some colleagues in infrastructure engineering who've helped DeepMind folks deal with infrastructure problems.

That being said, I'm perfectly happy to just be proud of what DeepMind has achieved. They've been great to interact with when there were shared challenges, and I - and to my knowledge all colleagues around me - aren't very interested in a question of credit assignment.

I agree, 98.3%.

Google's infrastructure and DeepMind's internal (not cloud) access to it has been absolutely critical. In many ways, DM is leading Google in terms of software development, while Google is leading in providing unique ML hardware capabilities.

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