Friday’s event, and Salakhutdinov’s discussion of research results, show how Apple is being forced to relax its famed secrecy as it competes for talent with rivals such as Google. Salakhutdinov joined Apple in October 2016, although he retains a professorship at Carnegie Mellon University. Soon after, at last year’s NIPS conference, he announced that his researchers would be able to publish academic papers, like their counterparts at Facebook and Google. It was a seen as a savvy concession to the academic bent of AI experts even inside industry.
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