← Back to context Comment by dyauspitr 9 hours ago This doesn’t sound like stepping down this sounds like stepping up within Google. 3 comments dyauspitr Reply tonfa 8 hours ago It usually isn't, Chairman doesn't involve day to day supervision and decision making.When Eric Schmidt became chairman or Ruth Porat became president, this was more a transition towards less involvement than an increase of impact. VirusNewbie 8 hours ago He means the chief scientist part. Before Demis had no influence on cloud, tpu development, day to day dev tools, etc. tonfa 6 hours ago Demis took Jeff former title. (Jeff became Chief Scientist when Brain was dissolved into deepmind)I suspect the SVP/CEO leading Deepmind has a lot more sway over the rest of the company than someone with a title and no reports. :)(Also the 20y+ of contributions and having built much of the base Google infra probably gave more influence to Jeff than the remaining title)
tonfa 8 hours ago It usually isn't, Chairman doesn't involve day to day supervision and decision making.When Eric Schmidt became chairman or Ruth Porat became president, this was more a transition towards less involvement than an increase of impact. VirusNewbie 8 hours ago He means the chief scientist part. Before Demis had no influence on cloud, tpu development, day to day dev tools, etc. tonfa 6 hours ago Demis took Jeff former title. (Jeff became Chief Scientist when Brain was dissolved into deepmind)I suspect the SVP/CEO leading Deepmind has a lot more sway over the rest of the company than someone with a title and no reports. :)(Also the 20y+ of contributions and having built much of the base Google infra probably gave more influence to Jeff than the remaining title)
VirusNewbie 8 hours ago He means the chief scientist part. Before Demis had no influence on cloud, tpu development, day to day dev tools, etc. tonfa 6 hours ago Demis took Jeff former title. (Jeff became Chief Scientist when Brain was dissolved into deepmind)I suspect the SVP/CEO leading Deepmind has a lot more sway over the rest of the company than someone with a title and no reports. :)(Also the 20y+ of contributions and having built much of the base Google infra probably gave more influence to Jeff than the remaining title)
tonfa 6 hours ago Demis took Jeff former title. (Jeff became Chief Scientist when Brain was dissolved into deepmind)I suspect the SVP/CEO leading Deepmind has a lot more sway over the rest of the company than someone with a title and no reports. :)(Also the 20y+ of contributions and having built much of the base Google infra probably gave more influence to Jeff than the remaining title)
It usually isn't, Chairman doesn't involve day to day supervision and decision making.
When Eric Schmidt became chairman or Ruth Porat became president, this was more a transition towards less involvement than an increase of impact.
He means the chief scientist part. Before Demis had no influence on cloud, tpu development, day to day dev tools, etc.
Demis took Jeff former title. (Jeff became Chief Scientist when Brain was dissolved into deepmind)
I suspect the SVP/CEO leading Deepmind has a lot more sway over the rest of the company than someone with a title and no reports. :)
(Also the 20y+ of contributions and having built much of the base Google infra probably gave more influence to Jeff than the remaining title)