Alphabet’s Google says it has fired a senior engineering manager after colleagues, whose landmark research on artificial intelligence software he had been trying to discredit, accused him of harassing behaviour.
Google’s research unit has faced scrutiny since late 2020 after workers lodged open critiques about its handling of personnel complaints and publication practices.in June published “A graph placement methodology for fast chip design” led by Google scientists Azalia Mirhoseini and Anna Goldie. They discovered that AI could complete a step in the design process for chips, known as floorplanning, faster and better than an unspecified human expert, a subjective reference point.
“It’s unfortunate that Google has taken this turn,” said Laurie Burgess, an attorney for Chatterjee. “It was always his goal to have transparency about the science, and he urged over the course of two years for Google to address this.” Patrick Madden, an associate professor focused on chip design at Binghamton University who has read both papers, said he had never seen a paper before the one in“It’s like a reference problem: everyone gets the same jigsaw puzzle pieces and you can compare how close you come to getting everything right,” he said. “If they were to produce results on some standard benchmark and they were stellar, I would sing their praises.
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