Interesting! He's definitely got some interesting background there. Normally someone wouldn't be added into a Github organization without an employment relationship there.
> AMD could really invest more in optimising deep learning libraries for their hardware if they want to be relevant
I am optimistic about AMD's involvement in AI. Just do a search of recent news on here, tons of exciting devleopment from AMD, especially Radeon Instinct. And here is an interesting comment about the comparison between Nvidia and AMD[1].
Also one of the earlier participants of the TF OpenCL support conversations https://github.com/gujunli was working for AMD at the time[1].
https://electrek.co/2016/02/26/tesla-machine-learning-expert...