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No? Goodfellow has a PhD from UMontreal (one of the deep learning academic powerhouses), advised by Bengio. He then joined Google Research and then left for Ope
by argonaut 10y ago
No? Goodfellow has a PhD from UMontreal (one of the deep learning academic powerhouses), advised by Bengio. He then joined Google Research and then left for OpenAI (which has a billion dollars in funding and is backed by YC/Elon Musk).
The first author of that paper has a PhD from MIT and is a postdoc at Berkeley. Berkeley is also an academic ML powerhouse, and receives millions per year in industry funding just for ML. The first two authors are also former Microsoft Research interns.
- nl 10y agoIt was mostly in response to the "working for rich American tech companies" part. Yes, well credentialed people continue to do great work, even when more people are working in the field.
- argonaut 10y agoSure, but my point still stands about all of these people having worked at rich tech companies or being funded by rich tech companies.