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One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future
Alongside Geoff Hinton and Yan LeCun, Bengio is famous for championing a technique known as deep learning that in recent years has gone from an academic curiosity to one of the most powerful technologies on the planet.
Deep learning involves feeding data to large neural networks that crudely simulate the human brain, and it has proved incredibly powerful and effective for all sorts of practical tasks, from voice recognition and image classification to controlling self-driving cars and automating business decisions.
Bengio has resisted the lure of any big tech company. While Hinton and LeCun joined Google and Facebook, respectively, he remains a full-time professor at the University of Montreal. (He did, however, cofound Element AI in 2016, and it has built a very successful business helping big companies explore the commercial applications of AI research.)
Bengio met with MIT Technology Review's senior editor for AI, Will Knight, at an MIT event recently.
[Ed. note: They talk about an AI race between different countries, collaboration between countries, a few companies dominating the AI field, military uses of AI, and more.]
[Ed note: Added 'Science' as a topic 22Nov0933.]
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday November 22 2018, @02:10AM (1 child)
Is he a deadbeat dad who is not up on his child support ? If he is the father who is the mother or was it an invitro thing ? I'm STILL not convinced that what we are referring to AI is actually that, but willing to give the benefit of the doubt. I guess until an AI goes off the deep end goes on a shooting rampage I will continue to question the existence of AI.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @11:39AM
I define intelligence as such: to make a decision based on some data and then be able to articulate the reasoning behind said decision. Until we have that, "AI" is nothing but extensive pattern matching.