Yoshua Bengio awarded Spain for his work in artificial intelligence

In addition to Yoshua Bengio, Frenchman Yann Le Cun and British Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis, were jointly awarded in the Science category, for enabling full integration artificial intelligence in societysaid the jury.

“Their contributions to the development of in-depth learning [deep learning] allowed great progress in fields as diverse as voice recognition […]object perception, machine translation, strategy optimization, protein structure analysis, medical diagnostics and more.

Given the extent of the disciplines to which these advances are applied, the present and future impact of their work on the development of society can be described as extraordinary, according to the jury.

Yoshua Bengio, 58, Yann Le Cun, 61, and Geoffrey Hinton, 74, have already been awarded the Turing Prize in 2018, which is considered the Nobel Prize for computer scientists. For his part, Demis Hassabis, 45, who in 2017 was among the 100 people considered the most influential in the magazine world. Timereceived the Wiley Prize for Biomedical Sciences in 2021.

Each has its own specialization

Yoshua Bengio specializes in probabilistic sequence models, which over time have improved speech and handwriting recognition.

Geoffroy Hinton created in 1986 the so -called backpropagation algorithm, tools for which he succeeded in designing, in 2012, a neural network, called AlexNet, capable of recognizing objects with only 26% errors.

For his part, Yann Le Cun based himself on both of these backpropagation algorithms to create, in 1989, LeNet5, a system that made it possible to identify with sufficiently specific characters written in checks in banks, for example.

He was recently one of the proponents of an image compression system that makes it possible to view digitized documents on the Internet, a technology used by millions of people every day.

For Demis Hassabis, he founded DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google that makes new artificial intelligence systems that are suitable for research and capable, for example, of prediction. the structure of more than 350,000 human proteinsaccording to the jury.

The Princess of Asturias Prizes, awarded since 1981 in eight categories, was awarded 50,000 euros (67,000 Canadian dollars).

They are named after the heir to the Spanish throne, Princess Leonor, eldest daughter of King Philip VI and Queen Letizia, and are given every October by the Royal Family in a ceremony in Oviedo, Spain.Asturias in the northwest of the country.