{"id":18347,"date":"2017-09-19T06:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=18347"},"modified":"2018-02-18T23:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T04:20:22","slug":"yoshua-bengio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/yoshua-bengio\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshua Bengio: the man leading Montreal\u2019s Artificial Intelligence movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Montreal\u2019s prominence in the evolution of an artificial intelligence industry in the past five years is primarily due to the leadership of Yoshua Bengio, we are all lucky he became a father and is a beloved son.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two main things changed me,\u201d he says. \u201cRelationships with women taught me a lot about humanity and emotions, and my children: they really transformed me. I mean it was like a part of my heart hadn\u2019t opened yet. You know having to take care of somebody and knowing that that person depends on you is really a transformative experience. When I was in my late 20s, it was a big thing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, the University of Montreal professor is a sought-after collaborator. He\u2019s founded or cofounded five different institutions and has been a key ingredient in both Google and Microsoft setting up artificial intelligence centres in Montreal. He recently became the scientific director of a new non-profit linking his current school with his alma mater, McGill. That organization will be publicly launched once it finds a CEO.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also the co-founder of Element AI, an entrepreneurial start-up dedicated to showing companies how artificial intelligence can help businesses run more effectively, save costs or both.<\/p>\n<p>Indirectly, both of those efforts stem from two research laboratories founded by Bengio in the early 1990\u2019s: the <em>Laboratoire d\u2019Informatique des Syst\u00e8mes Adaptatifs<\/em> (LISA), and the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA).<\/p>\n<p>MILA has been called \u201cthe largest concentration of deep learning researchers in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themontrealeronline.com\/2017\/09\/yoshua-bengio-the-man-leading-montreals-artificial-intelligence-movement\/\">September 2017 issue of the Montrealer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Montreal\u2019s prominence in the evolution of an artificial intelligence industry in the past five years is primarily due to the leadership of Yoshua Bengio, we are all lucky he became a father and is a beloved son. Two main things changed me,\u201d he says. \u201cRelationships with women taught me a lot about humanity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","category-journalism","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4LV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15609,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreal_foreign_investment\/","url_meta":{"origin":18347,"position":0},"title":"Montreal attracts more foreign investment","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"April 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A skilled talent pool, low corporate taxes, high quality of life, a dynamic environment and a network of integrated companies in key industries make Montreal an attractive location for foreign investment. 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