{"id":8624,"date":"2019-04-26T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2019-04-26T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T15:29:56","slug":"universite-de-montreal-prof-wins-100k-killam-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8624","title":{"rendered":"Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al prof wins $100K Killam Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Accolades piling up for AI researcher Bengio, who won the Turing Award last year and in 2017 was made an Officer of the Order of Canada<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n
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    Yoshua Bengio, a computer science and operational research professor at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, has been named one of this year\u2019s Killam Prize recipients, along with U de M political science professor Andr\u00e9 Blais. Bengio has been recognized for his work on artificial intelligence.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n
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    Yoshua Bengio describes himself as more of an introvert than an extrovert, and the Canada Council just made his life a little harder.<\/p>\n

    On Thursday, the public arts funding agency named the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al computer science and operational research professor one of this year\u2019s Killam Prize recipients, alongside U de M political science professor Andr\u00e9 Blais, two professors from the University of Toronto and one from the University of Waterloo.<\/p>\n

    The awards have been piling up for Bengio, who last year won the Turing Award, often described as the Nobel Prize of computing, and in 2017 was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI don\u2019t particularly enjoy all this attention,\u201d he said, reached in his U de M office, Thursday morning. \u201cIt\u2019s good for the missions I\u2019ve given myself, but I don\u2019t take huge pleasure in ceremonies and awards.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThat said, it\u2019s really important that in Canada we recognize the people who contribute markedly to our society because humans are still motivated by these things, not just by money. It feels good to do something greater than yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Bengio is one of the world\u2019s leading researchers on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

    He is a founder and scientific director at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, a partnership between U de M and McGill, which in January opened its 90,000-square-foot headquarters in Mile Ex, and will receive $120 million in government funding over the next five years.<\/p>\n

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    He sees the Killam Prize as recognition not just of his own work but of the work of all of his collaborators and students over the past decade. And as such, he\u2019ll take it.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe Killam Prize is one of Canada\u2019s most recognized prizes for academics,\u201d he acknowledged.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI didn\u2019t expect 10 years ago that we would have such a transformative effect on society. Ten to 20 years ago, this area of research was not popular, trendy or fashionable. It\u2019s thanks to governments who continued investing in curiosity-based research. If it wasn\u2019t for the system we have in Canada, we wouldn\u2019t have this impact we\u2019re seeing today.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Bengio\u2019s specialty is deep learning, an offshoot of AI that has brought a lot of attention his way in recent years, but which has been a long time coming, he explained.<\/p>\n

    \u201cDeep learning didn\u2019t appear in a vacuum,\u201d he said. \u201cIt came from decades of work building on neural networks, and an approach to AI inspired by the computation of the brain. We brought new solutions to how to train those networks. It\u2019s only in the last eight years or so that we\u2019ve seen the impact of those ideas in practice.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt started with computer vision, computers can now see a lot better than before. Computers can analyze speech, one of the first applications of which is speech recognition on your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The world of AI is still in its infancy and there is a long way to go, Bengio noted. But a threshold has been passed in terms of how it is used in the world.<\/p>\n

    \u201cAI is now not just in universities,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s out there in the industry. It\u2019s on your phone, it\u2019s going to change factories, (bring us) self-driving cars and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The Killam Prize comes with $100,000. Bengio hasn\u2019t decided what he will do with the funds, and he wasn\u2019t interested in dwelling on it.<\/p>\n

    \u201cToo much emphasis is put on money in our society,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish that young people (would) work on something they\u2019re passionate about, not to get rich or win a prize.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Bengio is more concerned about the future of AI. He was a contributor to the Montreal Declaration for Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence, released last year.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe new thing in my vision of AI is realizing that we\u2019re creating very powerful tools, which can be incredibly useful for society, but which can also be misused. It\u2019s going to take individual and collective wisdom \u2014 governments stepping in to establish social norms and frameworks \u2014 to make sure the technology is used for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

    If he can use his growing profile to help steer AI in the right direction, Bengio will accept the Killam Prize and others with a smile.<\/p>\n

    He\u2019s smart enough to know that the attention can only be a good thing for the continued expansion of his chosen area of research.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThese prizes help further the discussion in the media and to attract more investments,\u201d he said. \u201cMore students are choosing AI because it\u2019s getting so much visibility and recognition, celebrating the fact that it\u2019s changing the world.\u201d tdunlevy@postmedia.com Twitter.com\/TChaDunlevy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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