Losing Ian Goodfellow to DeepMind is the dumbest thing Apple’s ever done

There are a lot of machine learning developers in the world. But only one has been mentored by both Andrew Ng and Yoshua Bengio, invented a new kind of artificial neural network, contributed to or led research at Google Brain, OpenAI and Apple, and still has fewer than 40 candles to blow out on their birthday cake. And Apple just let him walk out the door and right into Google’s offices where he’ll soon be working for the DeepMind research …

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