CACM Jun 2019 - 2018 ACM Turing Award

Once treated by the field with skepticism (if not outright derision), the artificial neural networks that 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio spent their careers developing are today an integral component of everything from search to content filtering. So what of the now-red-hot field of deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI)? Here, the three researchers share what they find exciting, and which challenges remain. In this video, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun discuss their breakthrough work and the path that led the three of them to receiving the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award. This interview is also printed in “Reaching New Heights with Artificial Neural Networks,” in the June 2019 issue of Communications of the ACM.