The Godfathers of the AI Boom Win the Turing Award
Wednesday, Bengio, 55, and two other protagonists of that revolution won the highest honor in computer science, the ACM Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing. The other winners are Google researcher Geoff Hinton, 71, and NYU professor and Facebookâs chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, 58, who wrote some of the papers that seduced Bengio into working on neural networks. Asked whether they will deliver the traditional Turing Award lecture together, Hinton raises chuckles by suggesting Bengio and LeCun go first so he can give his own lecture about what they got wrong.
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