The reasoning assumes that ideas are first generated in academia and don’t arise inside of companies. With DeepMind outperforming the academic protein folding community when protein folding isn’t even the main focus of DeepMind I consider it plausible that new approaches arise within a company and get only released publically when they are strong enough to have an effect.
Even if there’s a paper most radical new papers get ignored by most people and it might be that in the beginning only one company takes the idea seriously and doesn’t talk about it publically to keep a competive edge.
That’s totally fair, but I have a wild guess that the pipeline from google brain to google products is pretty nontrivial to traverse, and not wholly unlike the pipeline from arxiv to product.
The reasoning assumes that ideas are first generated in academia and don’t arise inside of companies. With DeepMind outperforming the academic protein folding community when protein folding isn’t even the main focus of DeepMind I consider it plausible that new approaches arise within a company and get only released publically when they are strong enough to have an effect.
Even if there’s a paper most radical new papers get ignored by most people and it might be that in the beginning only one company takes the idea seriously and doesn’t talk about it publically to keep a competive edge.
That’s totally fair, but I have a wild guess that the pipeline from google brain to google products is pretty nontrivial to traverse, and not wholly unlike the pipeline from arxiv to product.