Two of Canada’s pioneers in artificial intelligence have claimed the world’s top prize in computer science. Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto and Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal ...

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Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence and one that was recognized Wednesday with the ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence and one that was recognized Wednesday with the ...

AI Pioneers Who Channeled 'Hedonistic' Machines Win Computer Science's Top Prize Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for ...