DeepMind CEO disagrees with the view that "Google does not have a moat" and says it will continue to lead the next key breakthrough.

CTOnews.com, July 12 (Xinhua)-- an anonymous user shared an internal document entitled "We don't have a moat and OpenAI doesn't have a moat" on Discord in May, questioning Google's future in artificial intelligence.

In a recent interview with Decoder, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, admitted that the internal document was indeed written by Google employees, but it did not mean that he agreed with this view.

Some of the interviews with Hassabis translated by CTOnews.com are as follows:

I think this memo is true. Google engineers often write all kinds of documents, which are sometimes leaked and spread.

We advocate a free discussion environment, but we will make our own judgment and set our own course. I didn't read the specific memo in detail, but I don't agree with the conclusion drawn from it.

You can look back at Google and DeepMind's achievements in innovation and breakthroughs. I am confident about Google's future, and Google will lead the next key breakthrough in the next 10 years, as it did in the past.

Hassabis is less pessimistic about Google's future in the artificial intelligence industry. He believes the competitive nature of the company's researchers will help push Google to the forefront of artificial intelligence, adding that the merger of Google Brain and DeepMind teams will lead to more breakthroughs.

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