The Fathers Of AI Received Computing Nobel Prize With $1 Millions

Saanvi Araav - Apr 03, 2019

The Turing award has been given to Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio together with a $1 million prize.

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Technology has gone a long way since the last 20 years. Nowadays, we could enjoy the computing power of millions of calculations each second right in our personal computers. We have cars that drive us home and speakers that talk to us. All of that and many much more is possible with the noble technology of AI (artificial intelligence). These days, this technology is at the heart of every piece of our technological devices. Thanks to AI, many of our science fiction in the past has become the reality of today. A big part of the credit belongs to these three researchers - Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton.

Computing Nobel Prize Was Given To The Fathers Of — Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton.

The Turing Award

They have spent decades of work on researching AI technology. Finally, their hard works have paid off when the Association for Computing Machinery gave them the ACM AM Turing Award. It is a huge award and be well regarded as "the Nobel Prize of computing". This is an award specifically for engineering and conceptual breakthroughs in the field of neural networks.

This award also comes with a prize of 1 million USD which is funded by Google. It also carries the name of Alan Turing - the British mathematician who built up the foundation for computing and came up with the Turing test ( the one helps to test the intelligence level of a machine).

The growth of Artificial Intelligence

Cherri M Pancake. the president of ACM has said that AI was one of the fastest-growing areas in science and one of the most talked-about topics in modern society.

The three scientists Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun are all experts in the AI field. They have worked in AI for more than 30 years and all know each other and even have worked together in the past. Their works have taken AI to the level that we see today.