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And to imagine that this all happened less than 2 years ago!

When we look back on history, I think it will be safe to say, that humanity is at this very moment in time going through an inflection point that will make previous Industrial Revolutions appear as if they were nothing more than tiny blips in comparison, with companies like DeepMind pushing forward right at the cutting edge of this frontier.

When DeepMind was originally absorbed into Alphabet, I was somewhat skeptical at first, not understanding why they would choose to do so. But now in retrospect, I realize this was probably one of the smartest choices they could have ever made. Not only did they gain effectively unlimited access to Google's internal computing infrastructure/hardware which is de facto the best in the world for machine learning, I can't think of anyone better suited or more aligned to the goals of what DeepMind is trying to achieve than Larry or Sergey. Because if there's anyone out there that really "gets it", it's Larry and Sergey. Just look at how they turned Google into Alphabet as testament to that vision [1].

[1] Google being a source of steady income, a stepping stone, with the real future placed in their alpha bets, hence the name "Alpha-Bet".