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AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?

Published 7 May 2023 by yoshuabengio

There have recently been lots of discussions about the risks of AI, whether in the short term with existing methods or in the longer term…

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Slowing down development of AI systems passing the Turing test

Published 5 April 2023 by yoshuabengio

I recently signed an open letter asking to slow down the development of giant AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 –those that currently pass the…

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Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML

Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML

Published 21 March 2023 by yoshuabengio

Co-written with my PhD student Edward J. Hu. Scaling seems to work really well. We must be cautious in pursuing research directions that build knowledge…

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Generative Flow Networks

Published 5 March 2022 by yoshuabengio

(see tutorial and paper list here) I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow Networks.…

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Superintelligence: Futurology vs. Science

Published 24 January 2022 by yoshuabengio

We sometimes come across catchy headlines about AI that can scare or excite us, such as “By the middle of this century, artificial intelligence will…

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Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

He is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize and in 2022, became the computer scientist with the highest h-index in the world. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and Officer of the Order of Canada.

Concerned about the social impact of AI and the objective that AI benefits all, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.