In this episode of pplpod, we explore the career and conscience of Yoshua Bengio, the Canadian computer scientist celebrated as one of the three "Godfathers of AI" and the most-cited computer scientist in the world. We trace his journey from his education at McGill University and early days at Bell Labs to winning the Turing Award in 2018 for his foundational work on deep learning alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun,,.

We discuss Bengio’s massive contributions to the field—including the founding of Mila and Element AI—and his pivotal role in developing technologies like neural machine translation and attention models,. However, the conversation takes a critical turn as we examine why this pioneer recently admitted to feeling "lost" regarding his life's work.

Topics covered in this episode include:

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