Canadian researchers who taught AI to learn like humans win $1M Turing Award
March 27th, 2019
Three researchers, two of them Canadian, have won the world's top award in computer science for developing the ability of computers to learn like humans, by imitating the human brain and how it functions using networks of "neurons."
That allows computers to acquire new skills by looking at lots of examples and finding and recognizing patterns, as humans do.
Machine learning — based on "deep learning" and "neural networks" — has led to the development of artificial intelligence that now powers everyday web and smartphone applications from voice, image and facial recognition to language translation. It's increasingly being used in more complicated tasks like generating art, creating text and diagnosing cancer from images.
Source: The CBC
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