Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after researcher firings

(Reuters) — Apple talked about on Monday it has employed used eminent Google scientist Samy Bengio, who left the search enormous amid turmoil in its man made intelligence overview division.

Bengio is anticipated to e-book a unique AI overview unit at Apple below John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine studying and AI system, two of us familiar with the matter talked about. Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 after spending about eight years at Google.

Apple declined to bid on Bengio’s role.

Bengio who left Google final week after about 14 years talked about final month he became as soon as pursuing “loads of thrilling alternatives”.

His resolution adopted Google’s firings of fellow scientists Margaret Mitchell for taking company recordsdata and Timnit Gebru after an provide to resign. Mitchell and Gebru had co-led a team researching ethics concerns in AI, and had voiced disaster about Google’s diagram of business vary and system to reviewing overview. Bengio had expressed give a enhance to for the pair.

As one in all the early leaders of the Google Mind overview team, Bengio superior the “deep studying” algorithms that underpin nowadays’s AI programs for inspecting photos, speech and loads of recordsdata.