Shifting the impossible to the inevitable A Private ARPA user manual
Stay in the Loop How can we enable more science fiction to become reality? Looking to successful outliers from history is a good place to start. After digging into why DARPA works, I asked the follow-up question: how could you follow DARPA s narrow path in a world very different from the one that created it? This piece is my answer. It both describes and provides a roadmap to actualize a hybrid for/nonprofit organization that leverages empowered program managers and externalized research to shepherd technology that is too researchy for a startup and too engineering-heavy for academia; taking on work that other organizations can t or won t by precisely mapping out blockers to potentially game-changing technology, creating precise hypotheses about how to mitigate them, and then coordinating programs to execute on those plans.
Apple Snaps Up Google AI Scientist Who Resigned Over Handling of AI Team
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Apple has scored a big win, hiring Samy Bengio after he resigned from Google following the firing of Google’s AI ethics team leaders.
Google landed in hot water after the controversial firings of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell. Google was accused of interfering with academic integrity and criticized for its treatment of women and Black employees.
In the wake of the incidents, some engineers departed the company, citing its handling of the entire situation. Sammy Bengio, however, was the most high-profile departure. As a 14-year veteran of the company, and one of the earliest involved in Google Brain, his departure was seen as a real blow to the company, according to
Apple Hires Ex-Google Artificial Intelligence Scientist Who Resigned After Colleagues Firings Samy Bengio is expected to lead a new AI research unit at Apple under John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, two people familiar with the matter said. Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 after spending about eight years at Google.
Updated: May 04, 2021 9:00 am IST
Apple declined to comment on Samy Bengio s role. Samy Bengio did not respond to a request for comment.
Apple Inc said on Monday it has hired former distinguished Google scientist Samy Bengio, who left the search giant amid turmoil in its artificial intelligence research department.
Who resigned after colleagues firings.
Apple has hired former distinguished Google scientist Samy Bengio, who left the search giant amid turmoil in its artificial intelligence research department.
Bengio is expected to lead a new AI research unit at Apple under John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, two people familiar with the matter said.
Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 after spending about eight years at Google.
Apple declined to comment on Bengio s role.
Bengio who left Google last week after about 14 years said last month he was pursuing other exciting opportunities .
His decision followed Google s firings of fellow scientists Margaret Mitchell for taking company data and Timnit Gebru after an offer to resign.