It seems that DeepMind has now gone from what had appeared to be a blue sky research org to almost a product group, with Google Research now being the primary research group.
Jeff Dean's reputation has always been as an uber-engineer, not any kind of visionary or great leader, so it's not obvious how well suited he's going to be to this somewhat odd role of Chief Scientist both to Google DeepMind and Google Research.
How things have changed since OpenAI was founded on the fear that Google was becoming an unbeatable powerhouse in AI!
https://www.deepmind.com/blog/announcing-google-deepmind
It seems that DeepMind has now gone from what had appeared to be a blue sky research org to almost a product group, with Google Research now being the primary research group.
Jeff Dean's reputation has always been as an uber-engineer, not any kind of visionary or great leader, so it's not obvious how well suited he's going to be to this somewhat odd role of Chief Scientist both to Google DeepMind and Google Research.
How things have changed since OpenAI was founded on the fear that Google was becoming an unbeatable powerhouse in AI!