nto the picture. Google, Facebook, Baidu, Microsoft and so forth are hiring more and more of the academic leaders in the AI field. When I recruited Yoshua Bengio to give a keynote speech at the AGI-14 conference this August in Quebec City, I realized that he was the last of the big-shot researchers in the fie

abis is the one who started DeepMind, and he has ideas beyond Deep Learning. The god fathers of the field are currently Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio: especially Bengio is an interesting person to talk to. Jurgen Schmidhuber seems to have a difficult personality, but IMHO that makes him a lot of f

abis is the one who started DeepMind, and he has ideas beyond Deep Learning. The god fathers of the field are currently Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio: especially Bengio is an interesting person to talk to. Jurgen Schmidhuber seems to have a difficult personality, but IMHO that makes him a lot of f

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