DeepMind reputation?

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Feb 11, 2017 7 Comments

For people that are familiar with Machine Learning, what is the reputation of DeepMind in the ML community? I have a co-worker that recently chose to join DeepMind (as an applied SWE) instead of other really high profile opportunities, and searching on the internet it seems a lot of people tried to get in but very few did. (Multiple stages of crazy interviews covering machine learning, mathematics and statistics). I am thinking of applying but wonder how DeepMind stacks up against other ML teams like Google Brain or Facebook FAIR?

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  • Amazon
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    from going to the last big conference for deep learning, Deepmind > Google Brain > FAIR
    Feb 11, 2017 3
    • Amazon
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      yes
      Feb 11, 2017
    • Amazon
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      be aware that being a software engineer in a research environment may be a little boring. my understanding is that research engineers are Deepmind are essentially researchers at this point because that role isn't very well defined yet. Without a good ML background, code will make no sense and scaling will be that much harder..

      Also, Deepmind's interview process puts way more emphasis on machine learning fundamentals than coding (algorithms assessment is easier than Google's by a lot).
      Feb 16, 2017
  • Can you get into the deep mind team without a phd ? Just work ex in ml ?
    Feb 12, 2017 1
  • Deepmind is where it's at, they are building the foundation for a GPAI.
    Feb 12, 2017 0