[HN Gopher] Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond ___________________________________________________________________ Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond Author : breck Score : 76 points Date : 2022-01-15 04:29 UTC (18 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ai.googleblog.com) (TXT) w3m dump (ai.googleblog.com) | cblconfederate wrote: | is google at all into biotech? | ford wrote: | DeepMind also released this paper/system [0] last year, which | had a lot of hype around it | | [0] https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/ | shmageggy wrote: | Now with a drug-discovery applied spin-off | https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/blog | [deleted] | twinge wrote: | Alphabet owns Verily Life Sciences[1] and backs Calico[2]. | | 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verily | | 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company) | The_rationalist wrote: | No concrete roadmap toward improving SOTA accuracy in key NLP | tasks? No roadmap towards true semantic NLU? How disappointing | and predictable | dannyeei wrote: | > We are also working hard to broaden the perspective of | Responsible AI beyond western contexts. This really grabbed my | attention - I fear big tech is pushing American morals down the | throat of the rest of the world. This is great that they're | noticing this and trying to correct for it! | absolute100 wrote: | https://productcoalition.com/product-thinking-vs-project-thi... | | Kyle Evans with an excellent reminder that by default, our mind | is optimizing for delivery of projects (features). Products also | have unique traits that projects don't encapsulate well: SLA, | measurement of success, observability, roadmap, clear long-term | ownership, and more: "While project thinking focuses on coming up | with solutions up-front and then delivering against a schedule, | product thinking keeps the focus on the outcome. That involves | some level of comfort with uncertainty and learning, which can be | pretty hard. But if we want to get to the right outcome, and not | just an on-time output, it is really the only way to work." | hffftz wrote: | ggm wrote: | It's all ML. Turtles all the way down. | hooande wrote: | I think the Google Research blog is all ML and AI. | Google/Alphabet does research into a lot of topics, but they | aren't all updated on this site | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-15 23:00 UTC)