Google 宣布重大 AI 领导层调整，Demis Hassabis 转任 DeepMind 主席与 Alphabet 首席科学家

谷歌正在进行一些重大的人工智能领导层变动，包括谷歌DeepMind领导人Demis Hassabis的重大职位调整。

首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊（Sundar Pichai）周三宣布，Hassabis将成为谷歌DeepMind董事长及字母公司首席科学家：https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/。Hassabis将继续领导Alphabet旗下的Isomorphic Labs，旨在利用人工智能开发药物。前DeepMind首席技术官Koray Kavukcuoglu将晋升为谷歌DeepMind高级副总裁，并向皮查伊汇报工作。Kavukcuoglu还将继续担任谷歌的首席人工智能架构师。

“正如你们多次听我说过的，我一直相信人工智能的首要应用应当是改善人类健康，”Hassabis在给员工的信息中表示。“现在是人工智能向世界证明其无可置疑价值的时候，而还有比帮助最终治愈癌症等疾病更好的方式来证明这一点吗。”Hassabis表示，他将“继续与桑达尔紧密合作，处理战略性和全球AGI事务”，并为Kavukcuoglu及其他DeepMind领导提供建议。

在另一项重大变动中，资深谷歌员工Jeff Dean——谷歌DeepMind首席科学家及谷歌第30号员工——将与谷歌研究员Sanjay Ghemawat一起离开，创立一家名为Discovery Loop的以人工智能为核心的公益公司。皮查伊表示，谷歌将成为该新公司的“创始投资者”。

Discovery Loop在其网站上表示：“我们的使命很明确：我们正在构建可以自动解决机器学习、科学和工程中重要问题的人工智能解决方案。”https://www.discoveryloop.com/ “通过加快工程和科学发现的进程，我们能够将科学和技术的成果更快速地带给全世界。最终，我们的目标是构建作为深度积极、赋能人类的人工智能系统，提供能够在全球范围内改善人们生活的技术解决方案。”

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis.

Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday：https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/. Hassabis will continue to lead Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs, which aims to use AI to develop drugs. Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly DeepMind’s CTO, is stepping up to become Google’s SVP of DeepMind and will report to Pichai. Kavukcuoglu will remain Google’s chief AI architect as well.

“​​As you’ve heard me say many times, I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health,” Hassabis says in a message to staff. “It’s time for AI to prove its unequivocal value to the world, and what better way to demonstrate that than to help finally cure diseases like cancer.” Hassabis says he will “continue to work closely with Sundar on strategic and global AGI matters” and to advise Kavukcuoglu and other DeepMind leads.

In another big change, veteran Googler Jeff Dean — the chief scientist of Google DeepMind and Google’s 30th employee — is leaving with Google Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat to form an AI-focused public benefit corporation called Discovery Loop. Google will be a “founding investor” in the new company, Pichai says.

“Our mission is straightforward: we are building AI solutions that can automatically solve important problems in machine learning, science, and engineering,” Discovery Loop says on its website：https://www.discoveryloop.com/. “By advancing the pace at which we conduct engineering and scientific discovery, we can bring the benefits of science and technology to the world much faster. Ultimately, our goal is to build AI systems that act as a deeply positive, empowering force for humanity, delivering technology solutions that improve people’s lives on a global scale.”