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Other former staff members were reassigned to Alphabet's drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs, which is a DeepMind spin-off.
They're still actively working on this area of research.
Err, sir. This is a pile on / anti Google thread. Please take your comments elsewhere. Please and thank you.
Pitchforks! Get yer pitchforks. Four for a paaand!
~~Don't~~ be [maximally] evil.
Google: A little evil is okay.
Very evil is fine too for them
Did not realise the point google dropt the act of pretending to be good and went full evil mode.
Remember actually liking the little jokes they made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg
Unfortunately, they've been full-on evil for at least a decade.
Sounds like they just moved the research over to isomorphic labs, also even from the onset people quickly took the original approach and paper and made their own versions tuned for their needs.
Feels more like a research project having achieved its goals, the key players moved on, and they're closing the Deepmind part of it as it's not really useful anymore.
they seriously out here shutting down the one universally accepted good this shitshow has brought us?
ffs man
really making it hard for the common person to not fucking hate their guts, between shit like this, data center pollution and the growing mental health crisis of people with cyberpsychosis getting talked into suicide by the llm
edit: shit i got jebaited by the title i think... the project is still available as is but the scientists have been moved to other projects yes?
They basically shifted all the research that they were doing through alpha fold to Isomorphic Labs.
Edit: there's a case to be made for the idea that they may have wanted to lower the public profile of the work they are doing in order to monetize it. Alpha fold was a non-profit endeavor, and switching it over to isomorphic labs may give them the opportunity to sell their research as a product instead of giving it away for free.
Go capitalism! 😒
delusional dimwits dreaming dollar signs
Sorry it didn't fit with the narrative of genocidal maniacs.
I should have seen this coming, even then, I am extremely sad.
This was of the few uses for machine learning that I think it was genuily useful. Mature enough to make an impact without destroying the enviroment.
It was also my main argument for people that are full hate AI. Now gone.
I hope others companies continue this research. It's in this type of problems where machine learning truly shines.
GenAi is still not mature enough, throwing so much compute power at it, is mostly wasting resources.
Imagine what could be done if all the computer power and researchers wasted on chats went to this type of project.
