{"id":449804,"date":"2022-05-19T22:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done\/"},"modified":"2022-05-19T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:45:36","slug":"losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done\/","title":{"rendered":"#Losing Ian Goodfellow to DeepMind is the dumbest thing Apple\u2019s ever done"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a367de85cea3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a367de85cea3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done\/#%E2%80%9CLosing_Ian_Goodfellow_to_DeepMind_is_the_dumbest_thing_Apples_ever_done%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Losing Ian Goodfellow to DeepMind is the dumbest thing Apple\u2019s ever done&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done\/#Greetings_humanoids\" >Greetings humanoids<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done\/#The_GANfather\" >The GANfather<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done\/#Artificial_general_intelligence_AGI\" >Artificial general intelligence (AGI)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done\/#Siri_Siri_wherefore_art_thou_Siri\" >Siri, Siri, wherefore art thou Siri?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-ian-goodfellow-to-deepmind-is-the-dumbest-thing-apples-ever-done\/#Its_your_business_Tim\" >It\u2019s your business, Tim<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLosing_Ian_Goodfellow_to_DeepMind_is_the_dumbest_thing_Apples_ever_done%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Losing Ian Goodfellow to DeepMind is the dumbest thing Apple\u2019s ever done&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            There are a lot of machine learning developers in the world. But only one has been mentored by both <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Ng\">Andrew Ng<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yoshua_Bengio\">Yoshua Bengio<\/a>, invented <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2018\/02\/21\/145289\/the-ganfather-the-man-whos-given-machines-the-gift-of-imagination\/\">a new kind of artificial neural network<\/a>, contributed to or led research at Google Brain, OpenAI and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le, and still has fewer than 40 candles to blow out on their birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p>And <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-05-17\/ian-goodfellow-former-apple-director-of-machine-learning-to-join-deepmind?sref=9hGJlFio\">Apple just let him walk out the door<\/a> and right into Google\u2019s offices where he\u2019ll soon be working for the DeepMind research team.<\/p>\n<p>His name is Ian Goodfellow. And letting him walk away from your California-based, Silicon Valley elite, ultra-progressive <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> company because <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-return-to-work-policy-alphabet-machine-learnin-1848942742\">he disagrees with your in-office work demands<\/a> is a scenario that\u2019s so dumb I can\u2019t believe GPT-3 didn\u2019t come up with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"corona-wrapper neural-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div class=\"neural-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"neural-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/companies\/neural-newsletter_header.gif\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/companies\/neural-newsletter_header.gif\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"neural-cta-input\">\n<h2 class=\"neural-cta-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Greetings_humanoids\"><\/span>Greetings humanoids<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"neural-cta-tagline\">Subscribe now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories<\/p>\n<p><!--[if lte IE 8]><![endif]--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To put this into a sports analogy, this is like letting Tom Brady or Michael Jordan leave your team over a disagreement between them and the team owner on how towels should be folded.<\/p>\n<p>Let Goodfellow and his team work from wherever they want. If they think they can code a better machine learning model from the International Space Station, you should probably look into building a rocket.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_GANfather\"><\/span>The GANfather<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s back up a second and put things into perspective. I can sense our C-suite readers reflexively prepping a \u201cgood of the company\u201d or \u201ceveryone is a rockstar at our organization\u201d speech in their head in response to this opinion piece.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think anyone deserves special treatment at Apple. Or any other company, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>But Ian Goodfellow\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C5&amp;q=ian+goodfellow&amp;oq=\">contributions to the field of machine learning<\/a> cannot be overstated. Office hours are a pretty silly thing to lose any talented developer over, and it\u2019s even more ridiculous to let your ML director walk because you think in-person smiles are important.<\/p>\n<p>Losing Goodfellow is a huge blow to Apple for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>His talent can\u2019t be easily replaced<\/li>\n<li>His work at DeepMind could put him in direct competition with Apple<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Goodfellow\u2019s greatest claim to scientific fame is as a part of the team that invented the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1406.2661\">generative adversarial network<\/a> (GAN).<\/p>\n<p>A GAN is a neural network that learns how to create content by trying to fool itself and, eventually, humans.<\/p>\n<p>Any time you hear about an AI that can generate text, write poetry, create images, or produce its own original music, you\u2019re almost certainly hearing about a GAN.<\/p>\n<p>The cool thing about GANs is that they work by pitting two neural networks against each other. Without GANs, humans would have to fine-tune every generative iteration \u2014 like trying to do coarse sanding with fine paper.<\/p>\n<p>But a GAN has one network that\u2019s creating and another that\u2019s discriminating. The second network is essentially a bouncer that blocks a lot of useless output before it even has a chance to manifest.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Artificial_general_intelligence_AGI\"><\/span>Artificial general intelligence (AGI)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After Goodfellow et al. invented the GAN, he continued his work at Google Brain where he helped solve computer vision and ML security issues. And from there he did a tour at OpenAI, the Elon Musk and Microsoft-funded AGI think tank where some of the world\u2019s brightest minds try to figure out how to invent and control a human-level artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>This is important to note because there\u2019s really only one other company on the planet as deeply invested in AGI and full of well-known talent as OpenAI, and that\u2019s DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>When Ian Goodfellow became the director of machine learning at Apple, many of us in tech journalism were surprised. It seemed like a huge loss for the Google Brain team, but it made sense for Goodfellow (it seemed like a well-deserved promotion) and, based on what we know about <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/08\/apple-explains-how-it-uses-machine-learning-across-ios-and-soon-macos\/\">Apple\u2019s AI programs<\/a>, it didn\u2019t seem like something that would come back to bite Google in the butt.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to today, and Google looks like the smartest player on the board as it re-welcomes Goodfellow to the fold.<\/p>\n<p>DeepMind is, basically, Google\u2019s version of OpenAI. Where OpenAI seems to be a bit more focused on ensuring an AGI doesn\u2019t rise up against us, DeepMind is more fixated on creating a <i><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ist<\/i><span> AI that can do anything a human can do without needing to be retrained over and over again to gain new abilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is something that could come back to bite Apple in the butt.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Siri_Siri_wherefore_art_thou_Siri\"><\/span><span>Siri, Siri, wherefore art thou Siri?<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>About five years ago, if you wanted to make a joke about virtual assistants or anthropomorphic AI, you had to invoke Siri. That\u2019s the only named AI that all of my readers were familiar with in 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, I\u2019m better off using Alexa for name recognition. But nobody\u2019s forgotten about Siri. At least not yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>DeepMind is on to something huge with its <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deepmind.com\/publications\/a-generalist-agent\">new GATO AI system<\/a>. No, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s on the path to AGI with GATO (or, really, anything else it\u2019s currently doing, but that\u2019s a debate for a different article).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But I do think that GATO could be extremely marketable if DeepMind can overcome the problem of giant-scale models and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.ibm.com\/articles\/machine-learning-and-bias\/\">bias<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Imagine Siri, but a version of Siri that could do a thousand different tasks on your behalf. Right now, our virtual assistants essentially do web searches and open apps for us. It might feel like Siri can do hundreds of different things, but telling you what time it is, how many messages you have, and what the capital of Nebraska\u00a0is, are all pretty much the same task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I\u2019m talking about a version of Siri that could control a robot capable of washing your dishes, while simultaneously identifying high-weed areas in your front lawn, while also generating a completely original cartoon for your kids to watch based on your specific prompts, and so on and so forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Currently, it would be an impressive feat for a team of AI devs to create a system that could do all of that in a simulated environment. The challenge of letting a generalist AI loose in the homes of random consumers is far more immense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But what if DeepMind pulls it off? What if, instead of Siri or Alexa, it\u2019s Google Assistant that becomes the world\u2019s first AI assistant capable of actually assisting in your day-to-day life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If DeepMind and Google manage to turn the played-out, boring, 2-D idea of what a virtual assistant is into something that could feasibly start to look like a real life-assistant,\u00a0everyone\u2019s going to forget about Siri. And Alexa. And any other \u201cassistant\u201d that can\u2019t do what GATO can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not so sure DeepMind can pull it off, but I am sure that the odds increased by a large margin the moment the company inked a contract with the GANfather himself.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Its_your_business_Tim\"><\/span><span>It\u2019s your business, Tim<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>At the end of the day, who knows what really went down at Apple. Maybe Goodfellow wasn\u2019t happy, or maybe Apple wasn\u2019t. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s no guarantee that DeepMind\u2019s work will ever interfere with what Apple\u2019s trying to accomplish, though most of what everyone\u2019s trying to accomplish in the field deals with some of Goodfellow\u2019s ideas on deep learning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>And<span>\u00a0it\u2019s also worth mentioning that big tech poaches talent from each other all the time. Let\u2019s not forget that Goodfellow left Google twice, once to join OpenAI and the second time to join Apple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the timing of his joining the DeepMind team is quite exciting. He\u2019s reportedly onboard as an independent researcher. That sounds a lot like he\u2019ll be given anything and everything he needs to do his best work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maybe Apple CEO Tim Cook has good reasons for letting his star quarterback leave to join a rival team in the middle of the playoffs. It\u2019s hard to see from our vantage point outside of the Cupertino company\u2019s walled gardens, but it\u2019s possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No matter what, it\u2019s an exciting time for the field of AGI research. There\u2019s no telling what Goodfellow and the DeepMind team can accomplish together. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Make sure to sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/share.hsforms.com\/1kUPK28s-Ro67GKE8E65Zwg47gef\">the Neural newsletter<\/a> so you don\u2019t miss a thing. <\/span>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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