<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Related news that illustrate some of the forces driving this:<br><br>Shane Legg, one of our former PhD students, is co-founder of deepmind (with Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman), reportedly just acquired by Google for ~$500m. Several additional ex-members of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA are working for deepmind.<br><br><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/Google-beat-Facebook-For-DeepMind-Creates-Ethics-Board">https://www.theinformation.com/Google-beat-Facebook-For-DeepMind-Creates-Ethics-Board</a><div><br></div><div>Juergen</div>
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