Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist at the University of Montreal in Canada. In 2019, he won an A. M. Turing Award ' considered the most prestigious honour in computer science ' for pioneering the 'deep learning' techniques that are now making artificial intelligence (AI) ubiquitous. Last month, he also became the first person to top one million citations on Google Scholar. Bengio has since turned his focus to exploring the risks posed by AI. He chairs an international panel of advisors in this field, which includes representatives from 30 countries, the European Union, the OECD and the United Nations. The group issued the International scientific report on the safety of advanced AI earlier this year. The string of papers that I co-authored on language modelling and attention ' that started in the late '90s ' on how we could introduce attention mechanisms in neural nets to make them more 'system 2', meaning more deliberate, and not just intuition machines. Yes, but I would mention...
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