Is anyone else worried that Kaggle no longer being independent will cause the diversity of contests to diminish?<p>I'm not sure that another Fortune 500 company would be as comfortable running their contest on a site that is part of Google (given that google may be privy to the entries or datasets in some special way)
The previous thread speculated the value-add of Kaggle to Google. From Google's side of the announcement:<p>> We must lower the barriers of entry to AI and make it available to the largest community of developers, users and enterprises, so they can apply it to their own unique needs. With Kaggle joining the Google Cloud team, we can accelerate this mission.<p>What does Kaggle do for "lowering the barrier to entry?" (And to AI specifically, as Kaggle competitions tend to be more solvable with things like xgboost, without requiring deep learning)<p>The Kaggle announcement mentions data storage for public datasets, but Google already has BigQuery.