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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

810 points · 862 comments · colesantiago

  1. dyauspitr · · focus · HN ↗
    This doesn’t sound like stepping down this sounds like stepping up within Google.
    1. tonfa · · focus · HN ↗
      It usually isn't, Chairman doesn't involve day to day supervision and decision making.

      When Eric Schmidt became chairman or Ruth Porat became president, this was more a transition towards less involvement than an increase of impact.

      1. VirusNewbie · · focus · HN ↗
        He means the chief scientist part. Before Demis had no influence on cloud, tpu development, day to day dev tools, etc.
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