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The DeepMind website [1] links to cofounder Demis Hassabis' biography on Wikipedia [2]. Read it. This guy is a world-class hacker! [1] http://deepmind.com [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
Is Google drunk? Thats $4B in basically two weeks on unproven companies.
$400M for a company I've never heard before is quite surprising. Could someone who participates in the machine learning community share any insights or facts they have on the company? Other than the founders' histories, the article doesn't do much justice to the pricetag.
The DeepMind website [1] links to cofounder Demis Hassabis' biography on Wikipedia [2]. Read it. This guy is a world-class hacker! [1] http://deepmind.com [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
That's a nice c.v., but he definitely wrote his own wikipedia article.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demis_Hassabis&dir...
- Some top ML talent: Geoffrey Hinton, Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig, Jeff Dean, Andrew Ng.
- One of D-Wave's quantum computers to establish their 'Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab'.
- Creepy robot maker Boston Dynamics.
- A stack of other robotics companies: Schaft.inc, Industrial Perception, Redwood Robotics, Meka Robotics, Molomni, Bot & Dolly, Autofuss.
- DeepMind, obviously.
Am I missing any?
I can't believe that they would pay $400M for a company without getting something more than just talent. They must have created something very impressive that will be able to plug into the Borg.
look how much facebook paid for instagram.
With a lot of money to spend.. this was a good move.
Acquisitions can also serve to kill the competition
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really understand the objective of those like Kurzweil. What do they see as the benefit of the singularity? Wouldn't a drastically more advanced intelligence just dwarf and dissolve any lesser intelligence that tried to meld with it? It would be complete ego death.
At best, a copy of you living in VR gets to live until the sun explodes. Which at least is better defined than "heaven".
$400M for a company I've never heard before is quite surprising. Could someone who participates in the machine learning community share any insights or facts they have on the company? Other than the founders' histories, the article doesn't do much justice to the pricetag.
https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10151812982157143?...
If they're hiring his students, they probably have a high level of talent (speaking as a former -- and present, starting tomorrow -- student).
I can't believe that they would pay $400M for a company without getting something more than just talent. They must have created something very impressive that will be able to plug into the Borg.
Better deal than $3 billion for a company that makes thermostats.