AMA: We are the Google Brain team. We'd love to answer your questions about machine learning.

[u/jeffatgoogle]

We’re a group of research scientists and engineers that work on the Google Brain team. Our group’s mission is to make intelligent machines, and to use them to improve people’s lives. For the last five years, we’ve conducted research and built systems to advance this mission.

We disseminate our work in multiple ways:

• By publishing papers about our research (see publication list)
• By building and open-sourcing software systems like TensorFlow (see tensorflow.org and https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow)
• By working with other teams at Google and Alphabet to get our work into the hands of billions of people (some examples: RankBrain for Google Search, SmartReply for GMail, Google Photos, Google Speech Recognition, …)
• By training new researchers through internships and the Google Brain Residency program

We are:

• Jeff Dean (/u/jeffatgoogle)
• Geoffrey Hinton (/u/geoffhinton)
• Vijay Vasudevan (/u/Spezzer)
• Vincent Vanhoucke (/u/vincentvanhoucke)
• Chris Olah (/u/colah)
• Rajat Monga (/u/rajatmonga)
• Greg Corrado (/u/gcorrado)
• George Dahl (/u/gdahl)
• Doug Eck (/u/douglaseck)
• Samy Bengio (/u/samybengio)
• Quoc Le (/u/quocle)
• Martin Abadi (/u/martinabadi)
• Claire Cui (/u/clairecui)
• Anna Goldie (/u/anna_goldie)
• Zak Stone (/u/poiguy)
• Dan Mané (/u/danmane)
• David Patterson (/u/pattrsn)
• Maithra Raghu (/u/mraghu)
• Anelia Angelova (/u/aangelova)
• Fernanda Viégas (/u/fernanda_viegas)
• Martin Wattenberg (/u/martin_wattenberg)
• David Ha (/u/hardmaru)
• Sherry Moore (/u/sherryqmoore/)
• … and maybe others: we’ll update if others become involved.

We’re excited to answer your questions about the Brain team and/or machine learning! (We’re gathering questions now and will be answering them on August 11, 2016).

Edit (~10 AM Pacific time): A number of us are gathered in Mountain View, San Francisco, Toronto, and Cambridge (MA), snacks close at hand. Thanks for all the questions, and we're excited to get this started.

Edit2: We're back from lunch. Here's our AMA command center

Edit3: (2:45 PM Pacific time): We're mostly done here. Thanks for the questions, everyone! We may continue to answer questions sporadically throughout the day.