Yoshua Bengio

3 entries between March 2019 and May 2023.

Every entry

  1. AI researchers and executives sign a statement on extinction risk

    The Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement on 30 May 2023, saying that reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority beside pandemics and nuclear war. Hundreds signed, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman.

  2. Future of Life Institute letter calls for a six-month pause

    The Future of Life Institute published “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter” on 22 March 2023, asking every laboratory to stop training systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. It gathered more than 30,000 signatures.

  3. Turing Award goes to Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun

    The Association for Computing Machinery named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award on 27 March 2019, for the work that made deep neural networks a central component of computing. The prize carries $1 million, funded by Google.