At the end of the day my question is simply why does anyone care about the drama over this one way or another?
Either the research is as much of a breakthrough as is claimed and Google is about to pull way ahead of all these other "idiots" who can't replicate their method even when it is described to them in detail, or the research is flawed and overblown and not as effective as claimed. This seems like exactly the sort of question the market will quickly decide over the next couple of years and not worth arguing over.
Why do a non-zero amount of people have seemingly religious beliefs about this topic on one side or the other?
Either the research is as much of a breakthrough as is claimed and Google is about to pull way ahead of all these other "idiots" who can't replicate their method even when it is described to them in detail, or the research is flawed and overblown and not as effective as claimed. This seems like exactly the sort of question the market will quickly decide over the next couple of years and not worth arguing over.
Why do a non-zero amount of people have seemingly religious beliefs about this topic on one side or the other?