Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy” (Zoë Schiffer/@zoeschiffer)

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer:
Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy”  —  Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company’s most cited ML expert.