Fei-fei Li is indeed returning to Stanford as a professor, but as previously described, she will remain the chief AI/ML scientist for Google Cloud.

Google cloud CEODiane Greene announced the news on her official blog, and also confirmed that Andrew Moore, former dean of the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon university (CMU), will succeed fei-fei li as head of Google cloud AI at the end of 2018.

Previously, according to foreign media reports, due to the impact of Google and the military cooperation incident, Google cloud AI/ML chief scientist Fei Fei Li or will leave in the next few months.

Google’s response: Li plans to continue working on Google Cloud for a long time.

“What I’ve learned in industry will further strengthen the collaboration between academia and industry, and I look forward to continuing to work closely with Andrew and the Google Cloud AI team,” Said Li.

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Before joining Google, Li was a noted AI ethicist, in addition to being a professor at Stanford University and head of the university’s ARTIFICIAL intelligence Lab.

Ms. Li was part of a months-long internal debate that erupted after Google employees agreed to provide artificial intelligence technology to the military to help analyze drone surveillance footage.

Ms. Li’s critics harshly pointed out that “her credibility as an A.I. evangelist has been undermined by the fact that she did not seem very concerned about AI ‘benefiting humanity’ or ethical issues when discussing the military contract.”

SFGATE believes that Li’s departure was related to the incident, though it has since subsided with the release of Google CEO Pichai’s article “Google AI: Our Principles” and his announcement that he would not renew his contract with the Defense Department.

A Google spokesperson told Business Insider that “Dr. Fei-fei Li’s plans for Google and Stanford remain unchanged.”

Li’s return to campus is less of a surprise than she was scheduled to finish her sabbatical in the second half of this year, which coincides with the start of the new semester.

After all, When Li was hired, she explained repeatedly: Some media have some change about my work is not accurate, in fact I didn’t leave Stamford, I still at Stanford university professor, also served as the director of the Stanford artificial intelligence laboratory, there is still a doctoral and postdoctoral, and together they write papers, do research, still just don’t need at school and do some other transactional work, I will be taking an “academic sabbatical” of about two years. Many universities in the United States allow professors to spend time in industry and at other schools, rather than leaving academia.

Of course, “consulting” is also necessary. After all, When Li joined, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who is considered one of the world’s top AI experts, said AI was critical to Google’s future.

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Echoing the news released by Diane Greene, CEO of Google Cloud, Li Feifei posted on wechat moments in the early morning Beijing time:

“The interaction of talent and the exchange of ideas between academia and industry has been an important part of the Silicon Valley legend. With the start of the new Stanford academic year, MY sabbatical has come to an end and I will be refocusing my work on academia. I am very honored and grateful for the two years of work and growth in Google. I am proud of our team’s achievements. Cloud AI has been highly rated by Forrester, MIT Technology Review, Forbes and others as the industry’s leading team.

Together we create a more influential products include AutoML, Contact Center, AI DialogflowEnterprise, Vision/researched/NL/Translation APIs, Cloud AI Platform and so on. Our industry solutions (retail, healthcare, energy) are also gaining traction. Thank you for your trust and creation!

In particular, the other half of the “good flying Cat group” – Li Jia. Because of your leadership, we grow together. Because of your friendship, we will share all the tears and smiles in our growing experience together.

Here is Prof. Andrew Moore (CMU), who is a senior leader in CS industry. I remember two and a half years ago, he and I were in his CMU office discussing where I was going to take my sabbatical after returning to academia from Google. He encouraged me to come to Google Cloud and shared his own experience of working at Google for eight years. Now I am looking forward to further cooperation and communication with him as an AI consultant.

A little tidbit: Stanford university will also publicly launch a major AI Initiative in the near future. The way forward of mankind needs the beacon of thought to shine, which is the historical responsibility and opportunity that academia and the ideological circle are duty-bound to take at this important historical moment. Only human-centered technology can truly benefit mankind.”

Feifei Li is an assistant professor at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s AI Lab, according to public filings. In November 2016, Li took a leave of absence from Stanford University and joined Google. On January 4, 2017, Li joined Google as the chief scientist of Google Cloud, officially entering the industry.

Previously, in November 2017, As the chief scientist of Google Cloud AI/ML, Li Feifei announced that Google would set up an AI center in China, starting from Beijing and gradually spreading across the country.

In 2018, at Google Cloud Next 2018, Fei-fei Li and Jia Li announced another milestone in Google Cloud: After some hard times, the AI call center has finally landed, AutoML has launched natural language and translation services as promised, and TPU 3.0 has entered the Google Cloud!

Now that She’s gone, it’s possible that her former student, friend and partner, Li Jia, will keep things going. After all, when Google unveiled Cloud AutoML in January, Li called it “the next step in democratizing” AI.

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In late August, CMU announced that AndrewMoore would be stepping down at the end of the year as dean of the school of computing and a professor of computer science and robotics.

Andrew Moore will join Google Cloud at the end of 2018 to lead Google Cloud AI and advise the company before joining.

But it wasn’t his first contact with Google: AndrewMoore set up Google’s Pittsburgh office while on sabbatical from 2006 to 2014. The group, which develops the underlying technology behind Google’s advertising, commerce and other systems, now has more than 500 people.

Joining at such a critical time, “I’m very excited about this,” AndrewMoore explained in a Google press release. “I’ve always been a big believer in the power of technology to improve the state of the world, so for me, this is a great opportunity to help Google bring useful AI to all other industry verticals.”

CMU President Farnam Jahanian added his blessing: “On behalf of the faculty, students and faculty at CMU, I am pleased to be able to express our support for Andrew Moore’s next step in his career.”

“He has successfully developed AI innovations at CMU and applied them to real-world environments. Pursuing a shared understanding of the important role of AI in the 21st century will also continue to strengthen our long-term partnership with Google.” Farnam Jahanian said.

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene posted on the Google Cloud blog:

At the end of 2018, Andrew Moore, dean of CMU’s School of Computing, will join Google Cloud to lead Google Cloud AI as well as serve as an advisor. Professor Fei-fei Li will return to Stanford university to continue her teaching career (as originally planned), and she will become an AI/ML consultant for Google Cloud.

Over the past five years, we have witnessed the remarkable impact AI has had on the world. Google Cloud AI aims to democratize AI by making it easier, faster and more useful. We believe that enabling all developers around the world to use AI in great ways will foster innovation that benefits everyone.

Over the past three years, we’ve released a series of products that build on Google’s AI expertise to make this vision a reality. We are bringing the best of Google AI for vision, language, voice and conversation to companies around the world via cloud services, and building a platform for customers to extend their models on Google Cloud via Gpus and Tpus.

This year, we took AI one step further with Cloud AutoML, enabling developers without machine learning knowledge to build advanced models to solve their own business problems. Google Cloud also brings together 2 million data scientists through Kaggle, now the largest data scientist community in the world.

We have over 15,000 paying customers on our platform, and over 10,000 customers have started using AutoML products since Google Cloud launched them at Google Next in July 2018. In addition, as AI becomes more widely used, we want to ensure that AI is used in a responsible manner by implementing Google’S AI guidelines. Google Cloud believes that THE journey of AI is just beginning, and we look forward to bringing benefits to all sectors of society in the future. Google Cloud is a leader in helping organizations apply AI, and Andrew will join Google Cloud to continue building technology and benefiting customers.

Li joined Google two years ago on sabbatical from Stanford as head and chief scientist of Google cloud AI. She has built a great team that has innovated together and done remarkable work accelerating the adoption of AI and machine learning by developers and Google Cloud customers. “What I have learned from industry will further strengthen the collaboration between academia and industry,” said Dr. Fei-fei Li. “I look forward to working closely with Andrew and the Google Cloud AI team to continue the collaboration between industry and academia.” We are proud that Dr. Fei-fei Li will be returning to Stanford to continue her leadership in AI, and we are pleased to have her continue to work with us in an advisory capacity.

Andrew will leave his position as dean of the CMU School of Computing at the end of this year to join Google full-time. It’s another return for Andrew, who worked at Google from 2006 to 2014. “I’m excited,” Moore said. “I’ve always believed deeply in the power of technology to change the world as it is, so it’s a great opportunity for me to help Google bring AI to all these other verticals.”

“On behalf of the Carnegie Mellon community, I am excited to convey our support to Andrew Moore as he moves on to the next phase of his career.” CMU president Farnam Jahanian congratulated AndrewMoore. “In addition to enabling CMU to anticipate the transformative potential of AI, Andrew is an example of Carnegie Mellon’s commitment to putting what you learn into practice. This shared understanding of AI’s vital impact in the 21st century will continue to strengthen our long-term partnership with Google.”

We are fortunate to have Andrew as our leader at this critical stage of development that defines how AI and ML technologies and solutions will be extended to developers and organizations around the world.

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