[apsec112]

He doesn't have an AI background, although I'm sure he's picked up some stuff over the last few years. Google made him head of a bunch of different things because of his project management skills. (I used to work in his department.)

[hiddencost]

Huh? He founded metaweb out of his PhD, which became the knowledge graph at Google, and is one of the most successful symbolic AI projects in history.

[dboreham]

He founded Metaweb but unless I wasn't paying attention he doesn't have a PhD. He's the same age as me so his academic career was in the 80's. jg isn't a big time AI guy but he is very smart and he's been deeply involved with AI projects for at least the last decade.

[steve_musk]

What is the difference between being "a big time AI guy" and being "deeply involved with AI projects for at least the last decade"?

[dboreham]

Acceptance as a bona fide AI person by HN.

[SuoDuanDao]

from context, I gather it's a question of name recognition.

[medecau]

A PhD.

[mi_lk]

Jeff Dean doesn’t have one, which category would you classify him in?

[enitihas]

Jeff Dean does have a PhD. Source: His own LinkedIn profile.

[asfasgasg]

KG is not what most people think of as AI. It's more of a very large triple database with some confidence metrics than anything like what would pass for machine intelligence today. It's not even in the same org at Google.

[hmm_really]

Most people are ignorant then :)

[asfasgasg]

Ok, KG is not what most people who work with and on it would consider AI.

[kolpa]

Symbolic AI is 20th Century AI.

[hiddencost]

Publish some papers in major conferences / journals, ship a few projects to more than 100M people, and get back to me, ok?

[freyir]

Nonsense, I trained a deep neural network on MNIST.

[yborg]

Old knowledge is ignorance. Ignorance is strength. Ergo, this is a strong hire.

[NickSharp]

In addition to management, he's an amazing engineer in his own right. (I briefly worked with him at Metaweb)