{"id":88988,"date":"2019-03-28T02:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/godfathers-of-ai-honored-with-turing-award-the-nobel-prize-of-computing"},"modified":"2019-03-28T02:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:22:24","slug":"godfathers-of-ai-honored-with-turing-award-the-nobel-prize-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/godfathers-of-ai-honored-with-turing-award-the-nobel-prize-of-computing","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Godfathers of AI\u2019 honored with Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/godfathers-of-ai-honored-with-turing-award-the-nobel-prize-of-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun \u2014 sometimes called the \u2018godfathers of AI\u2019 \u2014 have been recognized with <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/about\/2018-turing\">the $1 million annual prize<\/a> for their work developing the AI subfield of deep learning. The techniques the trio developed in the 1990s and 2000s enabled huge breakthroughs in tasks like computer vision and speech recognition. Their work underpins the current proliferation of AI technologies, from self-driving cars to automated medical diagnoses.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/3\/27\/18280665\/ai-godfathers-turing-award-2018-yoshua-bengio-geoffrey-hinton-yann-lecun\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/3\/27\/18280665\/ai-godfathers-tu...yann-lecun<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun \u2014 sometimes called the \u2018godfathers of AI\u2019 \u2014 have been recognized with the $1 million annual prize for their work developing the AI subfield of deep learning. The techniques the trio developed in the 1990s and 2000s enabled huge breakthroughs in tasks like computer vision and speech recognition. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}