The levels of misunderstanding in these types of headlines is what is scary. The paper is actually about a single simple model trained for a specific purpose, unrelated to the hundreds of other models various deepmind researchers have trained. But somehow that all too often just get’s reduced to “Deepmind’s AI”, as if it’s a monolothic thing. And here it’s even worse, where somehow the fictional monolothic AI and Deepmind the company are now confused into one.
The levels of misunderstanding in these types of headlines is what is scary. The paper is actually about a single simple model trained for a specific purpose, unrelated to the hundreds of other models various deepmind researchers have trained. But somehow that all too often just get’s reduced to “Deepmind’s AI”, as if it’s a monolothic thing. And here it’s even worse, where somehow the fictional monolothic AI and Deepmind the company are now confused into one.