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Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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Re: Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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For the residents that quit jobs in industry to do this program, what's next for them? How many residents are converting to permanent employees?

The current group doesn't end until at least June and so, except for those who just applied to grad schools, we're all continuing to do more awesome research here rather than starting to solidify what comes next. That being said, this is an unparalleled experience in the field and a phenomenal road to travel regardless of what we decide to do afterward.

But as someone who has industry experience, what are the advantages of applying for the residency program over a normal perm position within Google Brain? The Residency program allows you to focus more on research than engineering I suppose?

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Hi there! I'm Cinjon, a current resident in the Google Brain Residency. Feel free to ask any Qs and I'll answer them.

I'm a self taught somewhat prolific game developer and super interested in AI but have a poor mathematics background, think there's any chance?

I think I'll learn it on my own for now and try again next year!

Re: Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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Why aren't any of these geniuses working on AGI? Such as applying some of these NN advancements to agents in diverse 3d virtual environments attempting varied/gradually increasingly complex tasks and learning based on low-level (grounded) sensory inputs?

They are. The pace of research is not limited to six months.

I really want to work on this!
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