Apple has employed Samy Bengio, a outstanding AI researcher who beforehand labored at Google. Bengio will lead “a brand new AI analysis unit” inside Apple, in response to a current report in Reuters. He’s simply the most recent in a collection of outstanding AI leaders and staff Apple has employed away from the search large.
Bengio will work straight underneath John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice chairman of machine studying and AI technique. Giannandrea himself used to steer AI at Google (he labored there for eight years) earlier than leaping ship to work at Apple in 2018. We interviewed him at length final yr in regards to the rising function of machine studying in Apple’s software program and companies.
Apple makes use of machine studying to enhance the standard of pictures taken with the iPhone, floor recommendations of content material and apps that customers would possibly need to use, energy sensible search options throughout its numerous software program choices, help in palm rejection for customers writing with the iPad’s Pencil accent, and far more.
Bengio was a part of a cadre of AI professionals who left Google to protest the company’s firings of its personal AI ethics researchers (Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru) after these researchers raised issues about variety and Google’s strategy to moral concerns round new functions of AI and machine studying. Bengio voiced his help for Mitchell and Gebru, and he departed of his personal volition after they had been let go.
In his 14 years at Google, Bengio labored on AI functions like speech and picture evaluation, amongst different issues. Neither Bengio nor Apple has mentioned precisely what he will probably be researching in his new function in Cupertino.
