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The Google employees who created transformers

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But they don't work at Google anymore, so what's in it for Google?

What's in it is positive association between AI and Google. Google is sort of a seen as a joke in the latest wave of consumer facing AI tools, and they desperately want to change that.

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Puff piece or not, give credit where credit is due. Google fostered the environment that enabled that paper.

Or the other way around, perhaps if it stayed within Google it would have stayed in the dark and take xx years to discover again

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As someone who periodically listens to papers via text-to-speech, I was intrigued when I saw this link. I'm a little uncertain about the "AI simplification" - If I'm reading a paper I don't want to have the second guess everything I hear as to whether it completely misinterpreted, elided, or hallucinated a point.

Do you have any personal experience with the results?

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Puff piece or not, give credit where credit is due. Google fostered the environment that enabled that paper.

Regardless of the publication intentions, I like to see contemporary folks who have made an impact on the world through technology being recognized and elevated.

In economics, where I come from, people are not afraid to give accolades to relevant people, whether treasury secretaries, banking economists, or professors.

I feel that in tech, due to the lack of publications that have technical capabilities to understand that impact plus the lack of goodwill from the media in general, there are a lot of folks doing relevant work out there that is ostracised due to this "cult of tech CEO/entrepreneur" or intentionally under the radar to not bring any negative light in their lives.

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As someone who periodically listens to papers via text-to-speech, I was intrigued when I saw this link. I'm a little uncertain about the "AI simplification" - If I'm reading a paper I don't want to have the second guess everything I hear as to whether it completely misinterpreted, elided, or hallucinated a point. Do you have any personal experience with the results?

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Re: The Google employees who created transformers

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I am all in for allowing tax free bloated RnD departments just with the hope that once in a decade idea will propell the overall economy.

The marvel of modern computing is a result of RnD bloat that was done without immediate impact to the bottomlines of their own companies.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they don't work at Google anymore, so what's in it for Google?

What's in it is positive association between AI and Google. Google is sort of a seen as a joke in the latest wave of consumer facing AI tools, and they desperately want to change that.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but you're right — a story suggesting that 'modern' AI originated at Google is precisely the kind of narrative that Google's PR firm would shop around.
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