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Give credit where credit is due. This is DeepMind's research, and Google acquired them in 2014. Of course, Google gave them a lot of resources to train AlphaGo. But let's not bury the subsidiary, or I guess they would both be subs to Alphabet now making the two even less related.


According to the pre-match interview[0], the AlphaGo project is about two years old, and started out as a collaboration between two members of DeepMind and a member of the Google Brain team (Google's deep learning team which pre-dates the DeepMind acquisition by several years, according to Wikipedia). So really, AlphaGo is a combined effort that was always a part of Google, and I think it's pretty clear that resources provided by Google (money, equipment, and tooling) in addition to the techniques developed by both Google and DeepMind made this project a reality. I think they both deserve a lot of credit, certainly, but I wouldn't say that the credit is all that misplaced here.

[0]: https://youtu.be/qUAmTYHEyM8?t=1201


Well, 2 of the authors are from Google itself, so it's not fair to say it's 100% DeepMind as well.


If they wanted ultimate credit, they shouldn't have sold. They made a judgment call and part of that is Google gets a share of the congratulations.


Yes, but the team is Google DeepMind, not "Google research team".


DeepMind is part of Google.




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