AMA: We are the Google Brain team. We'd love to answer your questions about machine learning. • /r/MachineLearning

We can do exactly the same kind of work we would do in academia, including working on fundamental research or more applied research as we see fit. That said, some important differences with academic groups have an effect on our choice of projects and how we carry them out. For example, in comparison with most academic groups, we have more computational resources, including exciting new hardware (e.g. We can easily assemble large, diverse groups to work on projects, with several senior people if it makes sense and both engineers and researchers if it makes sense. Just like in Universities, we also have lots of strong junior researchers we are training that bring lots of new ideas and energy to the group.