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Jeff Dean didn't have a demonstrable expertise in AI before heading Google AI.
by julien_c 8y ago
Jeff 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.