Apple stated on Monday it has employed former distinguished Google scientist Samy Bengio, who left the search big amid turmoil in its synthetic intelligence analysis division.
Bengio is predicted to guide a brand new AI analysis unit at Apple beneath John Giannandrea, senior vp of machine studying and AI technique, two folks acquainted with the matter stated. Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 after spending about eight years at Google.
Apple declined to touch upon Bengio’s function. Bengio didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Bengio who left Google final week after about 14 years stated final month he was pursuing “other exciting opportunities”.
His determination adopted Google’s firings in current months of fellow scientists Margaret Mitchell after alleging she transferred digital recordsdata out of the corporate and Timnit Gebru after she threatened to give up relatively than retract a paper.
Mitchell and Gebru had co-led a group researching ethics points in AI, and had voiced concern about Google’s office variety and method to reviewing analysis. Bengio had expressed assist for the pair.
As one of many early leaders of the Google Brain analysis group, Bengio superior the “deep learning” algorithms that underpin right now’s AI techniques for analysing photographs, speech, and different knowledge.
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