Apple stated on Monday it has employed former distinguished Google scientist Samy Bengio, who left the search large amid turmoil in its synthetic intelligence analysis division.
Bengio is predicted to steer a brand new AI analysis unit at Apple beneath John Giannandrea, senior vp of machine studying and AI technique, two folks accustomed to the matter stated. Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 after spending about eight years at Google.
Apple declined to touch upon Bengio’s position. 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 resolution 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 stop slightly than retract a paper.
Mitchell and Gebru had co-led a workforce researching ethics points in AI, and had voiced concern about Google’s office variety and strategy to reviewing analysis. Bengio had expressed help for the pair.
As one of many early leaders of the Google Brain analysis workforce, Bengio superior the “deep learning” algorithms that underpin at the moment’s AI methods for analysing photos, speech, and different information.
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