John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by m0zg on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:12PM (#18728024)

Everyone who cares even a little about their academic career. Apple doesn't really let you publish. Even pop-sci articles they do publish on their website don't have any names. I know no sane researcher who would agree to end their academic participation so abruptly, particularly in order to work for an organization widely perceived as a perennial laggard.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by rrdharan on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:22PM (#18728134)

Actually they fixed that 2 years ago:

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/12/6/13858354/app...

https://machinelearning.apple.com/

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by m0zg on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:26PM (#18728182)

But... they didn't. In the very page you linked, try to find a single name of a concrete researcher who wrote/contributed to the article. If there's no name on the paper it's not "publishing".

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by Q6T46nT668w6i3m on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:59PM (#18728560)

They won the Best Paper CVPR prize in 2017.

Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training by Ashish Shrivastava, Tomas Pfister, Oncel Tuzel, Joshua Susskind, Wenda Wang, & Russell Webb.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by kenferry on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:45PM (#18728415)

https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/25/apple-wins-best-paper-prestig...

Names are there. Check the arxiv link.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by dwighttk on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:18PM (#18728082)

so is it "they won't open their wallet!" or "they won't let you publish!"

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by m0zg on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:20PM (#18728111)

How about both. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook both pay their researchers very well and let them publish extensively. That's why they have world-leading research organizations, and Apple does not.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by psychometry on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:30PM (#18728232)

Do you have evidence that Apple pays AI researchers less than those other companies? Honestly I'm not sure that you even understand the argument you're trying to make. The rest of us here certainly don't.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by woolvalley on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:43PM (#18728391)

In my experience, the offers that google, fb & netflix give are better than the offers that amazon, msft & apple give on a consistent basis. 'Special' people will get special offers, but we would have to compare their offers of what they would get elsewhere, and if their special skill would be equally valued at other companies.

Apple has an institutional memory of almost dying, so they can be a very 'cheap' company under the hood when they can get away with it. It reflects in their pay.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by bad_good_guy on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:25PM (#18728782)

Just because you aren't understanding doesn't mean most others aren't. He clearly said the other companies have an AND situation in regards to pay and publishing. He is saying Apple does not, as it does not allow proper publishing.

I.e. {'Pay' AND 'Publishing' > 'Pay'} not {Apple 'Pay' < Other 'Pay'}

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by danso on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:25PM (#18728168)

If Google’s strategy is to be emulated, then why is hiring someone who was part of that strategy a bad move on Apple’s part?

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by m0zg on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:36PM (#18728313)

I'm not saying it's a _bad_ move. It's just insufficient. And until they unclench wrt publishing nothing is going to change for them. And even after they do that, it will take a lot of convincing (and large wads of cash) to hire the best talent that can not only get Siri to catch up to Google, but overtake it.

My problem is not with Giannandrea's new position, it's with the lack of urgency on Apple's part. My patience has been wearing thin as of late.

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