TechAide Cafe with Yoshua Bengio on Role of Machine Learning to Understand Consciousness

During a tasty TechAide Café, Yoshua Bengio talked about the Role of Machine Learning to Understand Consciousness. Yoshua is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning.

Since 1993, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the Université de Montréal. CIFAR’s Learning in Machines & Brains Program Co-Director, he is also the founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, the world’s largest university-based research group in deep learning.

In 2018, Yoshua Bengio ranked as the computer scientist with the most new citations worldwide, thanks to his many high-impact contributions. In 2019, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing”, jointly with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

This live conversation was hosted by Shibl Mourad from Google DeepMind.

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TechAide is a grassroots collective started by OSMO in 2016 to inspire the Montreal tech ecosystem to get together to give back to our local community. TechAide unites people from diverse backgrounds and life stories with a common goal to raise funds, mobilize resources and encourage innovative approaches to help eradicate social inequalities believing everyone living in Greater Montreal should have the opportunity to thrive.

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