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

817 points · 871 comments · colesantiago

  1. GodelNumbering · · focus · HN ↗
    So, in last several months, all the prominent names Google lost: Demis Hassabis (technically still with google but these things are usually presented with a spin), Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, David Silver, Denny Zhou, Fernando Pereira, Alex Turner

    And all the prominent names Google gained: NULL

    Combined with no gemini frontier GA release in about 14 months. You have to have created an environment pretty hostile to innovation for this to happen

    1. hintymad · · focus · HN ↗
      This funny post reads surreal, but it may carry some truth: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;signulll&#x2F;status&#x2F;2067446889956430273?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;signulll&#x2F;status&#x2F;2067446889956430273?lang=en
      1. adityazero · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; sundar, softly: “we can create a permission working group.”

        so true. i have attended meetings to decide on meeting topics for the next half.

        1. atmosx · · focus · HN ↗
          That’s how the Brussels bureaucracy works. There is even a TV series about it.
        2. Bendy · · focus · HN ↗
          Reminded me of a bit from the GOAT political comedy Yes, Prime Minister:

          &quot;But he&#x27;s the Prime Minister!&quot;

          &quot;Indeed he is Bernard. He has his own car, a nice house in London, a place in the country, endless publicity and a pension for life. What more does he want?&quot;

          &quot;I think he wants to govern Britain.&quot;

          &quot;Well stop him, Bernard!&quot;

          1. titanomachy · · focus · HN ↗
            Oh man, that show has some amazing writing.

            &quot;Tobacco-related diseases cost the NHS £150 million per year!&quot;

            &quot;Yes we&#x27;ve looked into that, it turns out that if those people had survived they would have cost us billions in pensions and healthcare costs! From a financial perspective, it&#x27;s vastly preferable that they continue to die at the current rate.&quot;

        3. imglorp · · focus · HN ↗
          At $work, r&amp;d once had a retreat with a consultant to discuss why our productivity was too low per some spreadsheet. The consultant was told how everyone is in meetings all day so we all stole time from our families at night to get any work done at all. :(
        4. Melatonic · · focus · HN ↗
          [delayed]
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