Canadian AI leaders win Turing Award for computer science GlobeTechnology
Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal and Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University were named co-winners of the prestigious Turing Award on Wednesday.Two of Canada’s pioneers in artificial intelligence have claimed the world’s top prize in computer science.
Mr. Turing is also known for proposing the Turing test as a way to evaluate whether an artificially intelligent system is doing something that is genuinely indistinguishable from human thought. Most experts say that such a system remains a long way off, but learning algorithms based on the work of this year’s prize winners have proved remarkably effective at mastering complex tasks without thinking.
A series of turning points came between 2009 and 2012 when artificial intelligence began to achieve results in computer vision and natural-language processing that many had thought were still years away.“I don’t think that we could have guessed 10 years ago that we would be where we are now,” Dr. Bengio said.
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