Can any HN Googlers comment on what this announcement means? Is this announcement just a PR move to get people to pay attention to upcoming announcements? Or does it actually have deeper impact to the way Google functions with internal teams?
My guess is they have a bigger announcement coming next week. Otherwise, it seems like a bad PR move... it positions Google as playing catchup in AI... which is accurate, but strange PR.
Jeff Dean gave himself a promotion and doesn't want to run an org any more; aside from that, :shrug:?
In some sense, it's PR, but not in the typical gimmicky way. Alphabet has had DeepMind for a while, and at this point with all of the competition in AI, it doesn't make sense to keep DeepMind at arm's length. I personally think it's a good move and gives me more confidence, but it doesn't affect me directly. I do worry what redundancies this causes with Brain and Research though.