4 ms·
His 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, b
by freyir 8y ago
His 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.