Speaking to Axios at a Toronto artificial intelligence conference, Yoshua Bengio warned against the concentration of money and power in Silicon Valley.
University of Montreal professor Yoshua Bengio is one of three members of what they have self-titled the “deep learning conspiracy.” This “Canadian Mafia” of artificial intelligence visionaries is largely responsible for the tech industry’s leap into machine learning.
Bengio and his colleagues consult for the companies to which he is referring: Bengio for IBM, with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for Google and Facebook, respectively. Apple’s AI research is led by Hinton’s protege Ruslan Salakhutdinov. These are the companies that can use AI to create even better AI, embarrass China at their oldest game, police Twitter, or give your next iPhone a brain. – READ MORE
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