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SVP is probably a very important position in corporate AAPL, however, I will feel more excited for Apple if someone like Chris Lattner would join/return as chie
by freewizard 8y ago
SVP is probably a very important position in corporate AAPL, however, I will feel more excited for Apple if someone like Chris Lattner would join/return as chief AI/ML engineer.
- woolvalley 8y agoChris latner is probably at google because google pays him better.
- awa 8y agoI wonder at what point the pay becomes just a number. I am hoping people at Chris’s position are where they are because of the role, organization and the opportunity and not just because of money
- freyir 8y agoHis experience seems to be entirely focused on compilers. He's a talented engineer and leader, and his decision to join Google Brain indicates interest in AI, but wouldn't the chief AI/ML engineer have some demonstrable expertise in that particular field?
- julien_c 8y agoJeff Dean didn't have a demonstrable expertise in AI before heading Google AI.
- iainmerrick 8y agoYes he did -- He co-authored an influential deep learning paper in 2012: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub40565 https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub40565 I think his contribution at that time was mainly clever ways to drastically scale up existing neural net techniques, but just scaling things up 100x or 1000x seems to be a large part of the magic of deep learning.
- polishTar 8y agoAnd not only that. Even his undergrad thesis back from 1990 was on neural nets. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVtqmejL/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVt...
- justicezyx 8y agoJeff cofounded the google brain team. And TBH, it was him, who knows general computing from circuits to planet scale distributed systems, really enabled the AI as it today, at least inside Google.
- saagarjha 8y agoChris Lattner works on Swift for TensorFlow, so it’s not hard to see why he was picked for this role.
- freyir 8y agoThat might be credited more to his role in creating Swift than his expertise in ML. To be clear, I'm not claiming he's not capable of the role at some point. I don't know one way or the other. But his transition from compilers to AI seems fairly recent.