{"id":4680,"date":"2021-05-12T14:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:45:56","slug":"former-google-al-researcher-joins-apples-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/former-google-al-researcher-joins-apples-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Google Al Researcher Joins Apple&#8217;s Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Google Al Researcher, Samy Bengio joins Apple as the tech giant tries to boost the growing role of machine learning in Apple&#8217;s software and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bengio, who was part of a cadre of AI experts who left Google in protest at the dismissal of their Al ethics researchers, Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru will now lead &#8220;a new Al research unit&#8221; while working directly under Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, John Giannandrea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giannandrea himself ran Google, where he worked for eight years before joining Apple in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bengio showed his support for Google&#8217;s two AI ethics researchers and left his job voluntarily after the employees were fired for raising ethical concerns about new applications of AI and machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his 14 years at Google, Bengio worked on applications such as voice and image analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/05\/apple-hires-yet-another-ex-google-ai-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google Al Researcher, Samy Bengio joins Apple as the tech giant tries to boost the growing role of machine learning in Apple&#8217;s software and services. Bengio, who was part of a cadre of AI experts who left Google in protest at the dismissal of their Al ethics researchers, Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[202,40],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-apple","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}