At a time when technology companies are competing for the artificial intelligence track, Google has implemented a major reorganization, merging two major artificial intelligence research departments: DeepMind and Google Brain, forming Google DeepMind.
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai (Sundar Pichai) said in a blog post on April 20 local time that the combined team will “significantly accelerate our progress in AI.”
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will serve as CEO of Google DeepMind, and Pichai said Hassabis will “lead the development of our most capable and responsible general artificial intelligence system.” “. At the same time, Jeff Dean, former senior vice president of Google Research and Health and co-founder of the Brain team, who oversaw the Google Brain team, will serve as the chief scientist of Google Research and Google DeepMind.
“Combining all of this talent into one dedicated team, backed by Google’s computing resources, will greatly accelerate our progress in artificial intelligence,” Pichai said in a blog post.
“By working closely with talented colleagues across Google’s product landscape, we have the opportunity to deliver AI research and products that dramatically improve the lives of billions of people, transform industries, advance science, and serve diverse communities.” Hassabis In a memo to employees, he said, “By creating Google DeepMind, I believe we can achieve that future more quickly. Building more powerful and general artificial intelligence in a safe and responsible manner requires us to solve some of the most difficult problems of our time.” Formidable scientific and engineering challenge.”
Tech companies such as Google and Microsoft-backed OpenAI have been racing to build large and increasingly powerful language models. These programs have shown potential for tasks as diverse as summarizing complex documents and conducting human-like conversations. Google pioneered technologies that paved the way for the development of such models, such as Transformer, but has largely blocked the public release of its most powerful image and text generation programs, citing the need to test the tools for accuracy and bias question. In March, Google opened up early access to Bard, which competes with ChatGPT and Bing chatbots, and also gave developers limited access to one of its biggest AI algorithms, PaLM. This week, it was reported that Google is building a new search engine driven by artificial intelligence technology, which will provide a more personalized user experience and try to predict the needs of users.