- Published on April 16, 2019
- In Global Tech
Apple Hires The GANfather Ian Goodfellow Away From Google To Up Its Ante In The AI Game
- By Srishti Deoras
One of the most spectacular machine learning researchers of recent times, Ian Goodfellow made headlines when Apple hired him as the director of Machine Learning for its Special Projects Group. While Apple has not provided confirmation on this yet, Goodfellow’s LinkedIn profile confirms the news.
This is the second ambitious hiring by Apple after it on-boarded John Giannandrea as the Senior Vice President of machine learning and artificial intelligence, to oversee all AI and ML developments in the company including Core ML and Siri technologies. He was the head of AI and search at Google.
Goodfellow is the second top-notch AI talent that Apple has sourced from Google with an aim to strengthen its AI strategy. At Google, Goodfellow was a senior staff research scientist, having had stin
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Srishti Deoras
Srishti currently works as Associate Editor at Analytics India Magazine. When not covering the analytics news, editing and writing articles, she could be found reading or capturing thoughts into pictures.
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