The Google Brain-deepmind Merger Is Probably Good For Google. It Might Not Be For Us.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced the merging of the company’s two advanced A.I. research labs, Google Brain and DeepMind, to form a new unit called Google DeepMind. This move is a logical one for Google, as they are in a competition with Microsoft to infuse cutting-edge generative A.I. into their product offerings the fastest. Google Brain was already up-and-running when the company acquired DeepMind in 2014, and was driven by Google co-founder Larry Page. This merging of the two A.I. teams could have a large impact on Big Tech’s future, and the public’s, as deep learning is based on neural networks.