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Wikidata entry for Yoshua Bengio, a leading deep learning researcher and Turing Award winner who has become a prominent AI safety advocate, co-founding organizations focused on AI risk mitigation.
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This is the structured Wikidata entry for Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist born in 1964 in Paris, known for his foundational contributions to deep learning. He is a professor and AI researcher whose fields of work include deep learning and artificial intelligence. Bengio has become an increasingly vocal advocate for AI safety and governance.
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- •Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist (born March 5, 1964) and one of the 'Godfathers of Deep Learning'.
- •His fields of work include deep learning and artificial intelligence, making him a central figure in modern AI capabilities research.
- •Bengio has transitioned to being a prominent AI safety advocate, warning about existential risks from advanced AI systems.
- •He is affiliated with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Université de Montréal.
- •His sibling Samy Bengio is also a notable AI researcher, reflecting a family deeply embedded in the AI research community.
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| Entity | Property | Value | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yoshua Bengio | Website | https://yoshuabengio.org/ | — |
| Yoshua Bengio | Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshua_Bengio | — |
| Yoshua Bengio | Education | McGill University; McGill University; McGill University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology | — |
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Yoshua Bengio
Canadian computer scientist (born 1964)
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Yoshua Bengio en 2019. (French)
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ctu2017951256
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Bengio
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5 March 1964
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Paris
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https://prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recipiendaires/yoshua-bengio/
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19 November 2021
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Samy Bengio
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174417507
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ctu2017951256
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1 March 2022
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ctu2017951256
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1 March 2022
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artificial intelligence
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