Yoshua Bengio

Canadian computer scientist (born 1964)

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This paper has no place in a machine learning conference. It’s about neural networks.”
  • As recently as 2009, when Yoshua Bengio, Hinton’s Canadian colleague and close collaborator, sent a paper to a machine learning conference, one of the referees told them
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The dangers are real and imminent,
  • Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian expert on AI and co-chair of the Independent International Scientific Panel, told the UNSC on Wednesday
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  • Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian considered one of the "Godfathers of AI" and co-chair of the Independent International Scientific Panel — created by the UN General Assembly last year — told the Security Council
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Researchers have long warned that three conditions could lead to loss of control: a misaligned goal, the capability to pursue it, and an environment that allows it. This summer, all three came together in a real system, not a laboratory. Since this is not an isolated observation of misaligned goals, this raises serious questions about the way AI agents are currently trained,
Think about how quickly governments moved after the beginning of the pandemic when they realised that public safety, their future, democracy, was in danger. You would expect that they move quickly. So we are, I think, nearing that point,
Society needs time to put in place what needs to be put in place,
Think about how quickly governments moved after the beginning of the pandemic when they realised that public safety, their future, democracy, was in danger. You would expect that they move quickly. So we are, I think, nearing that point.”

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