Reading between the lines - actually, just reading the lines - it sounds like another organisation that got infested with the kind of people who are apt to ruin organisations, and perhaps an attempt it being made to fumigate it, and they don't like that.
Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis
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Re: Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis
#12Maybe they should just start again. Taking the name of a man who the state chemically castrated and drove to suicide and putting it on an institution being repurposed from public good to defense of the state seems grotesque to me.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
DeepMind was founded and is still headquartered in London.
"DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Google in 2014 and merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind in April 2023" Q: Is the HQ nominally being in London at all relevant given it was acquired…
a lot of the researchers are still in london
Re: Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis
#14Instead of founding this institute and spending however much they did on it they should have just protected DeepMind and not allowed it to have been sold to Google
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#15> "In March last year more than 180 staff wrote a letter to leadership expressing “serious concerns” about the organisation’s approach to diversity after it appointed four men to senior roles" This is part of the "identity crisis"?
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Monty Python seems especially appropriate here.
> It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression! [0]
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
"DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Google in 2014 and merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind in April 2023" Q: Is the HQ nominally being in London at all relevant given it was acquired…
a lot of the researchers are still in london
I understand that iPhones are assembled in China, India and Vietnam. Would those countries issue press releases on "their leadership in iPhones"?
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#17> "In March last year more than 180 staff wrote a letter to leadership expressing “serious concerns” about the organisation’s approach to diversity after it appointed four men to senior roles" This is part of the "identity crisis"?
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I mean go ahead and pretend you're black or whatever, I'm sure that'll go over well with the people you work with every day. There are some real weirdos on this site
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#18> "In March last year more than 180 staff wrote a letter to leadership expressing “serious concerns” about the organisation’s approach to diversity after it appointed four men to senior roles" This is part of the "identity crisis"?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
a lot of the researchers are still in london
I understand that iPhones are assembled in China, India and Vietnam. Would those countries issue press releases on "their leadership in iPhones"?
China, India and Vietnam absolutely lead in manufacturing iphones, yes.
Re: Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis
#20An earlier discussion on HN about this issue.
What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute? (April 2024): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493313