Switching Sides: Google AI Expert Accepts Job At Apple

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"Hong Kong, China - October 20, 2011: People in the Apple Store at International Finance Center, Central Hong Kong, opened on the September 24, 2011. With 15000 square feet and 300 employees it is one of the biggest apple stores in the world."

Ian Goodfellow is a name many investors aren’t familiar with, but he’s making headlines after quitting Alphabet Inc GOOG 0.01% GOOGL to join Apple Inc. AAPL.

What Happened

Goodfellow was one of Google’s leading artificial intelligence experts and credited for being the “father” of general adversarial networks (GANs), CNBC reports. While working at Google, Apple employees did research that was based on his GAN technology expertise.

Read more at Benzinga.

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