Googlers - Ian Goodfellow
Was reading that Apple poached him. In LinkedinIn markets himself as industry leader in ML. I am not a ML person, so curious to learn more about his accomplishments at Google and ML field in general. Is it one of a kind? Very important techniques etc. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/apple-hires-ai-expert-ian-goodfellow-from-google.html
Hes the ganfather of ai
Don’t people just invent new ML model approaches all the time? Isn’t that what ML is about - define a new model that is most suited to your application? Or do they just mostly use existing ML models and figure out what features to use.
Ha ha .. Nice play of words :)
He’s a good fellow.
I have seen his ML book. It gives you the chronological order of topics one should master in ML. I could not learn from his book, it was too heavy for me . So I found videos , other sources of the topics.
He is very important in the industry. He is an undisputed leader in adversarial leaning (GANS) and adversarial examples (think ML pen testing). Apple needs him badly I’d say, great hire for them if true. Not a huge loss for google actually. G is pretty far ahead in ML, still have a very deep bench (no pun intended)
He is certainly in the top level of ML researchers. His main contribution is the popularization of GAN through his paper. He in fact coined the term GAN. He is also a co-author of Deep Learning book which is considered as seminal work in the area. He is no where near Geffory Hinton or Yann LeChn or Andrew NG in terms of contribution to theory of ML. But certainly in the global top 20 list of influencers in the area.
He got a shout out from The Andrew Ng himself today on his official Facebook page
I met him once. He’s nice.
I guess you could even say that he's a good fella.
He invented GAN, Generaltive Adversarial Network, and wrote the “Deep Learning” book.
Who?
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/apple-hires-ai-expert-ian-goodfellow-from-google.html