Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

Re:Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing ... by TicklishTiger on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:27AM (#19499783)

I have the feeling this got so many upvotes because people think this is related to the turing test. And that we have a chatbot now that can trick the average person into thinking it's a human.

It's not.

It's about some incremental progress in making neuronal networks classify stuff.

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Re:Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing ... by fooker on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:28AM (#19499790)

Pretty sure the Turing award is at least as well known as the Turing test.

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Re:Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing ... by TicklishTiger on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:31AM (#19499811)

"Pretty sure" how?

Google trends seems to indicate the opposite.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=turing%20award,tu...

But it's not about "well known" anyhow. It's about significance. A turing test winning chat bot would be a much bigger breakthrough then an incremental improvement in image and text classification.

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Re:Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing ... by ccjnsn on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:58AM (#19499977)

Depends with what bias you want to read the data.

It could mean no one needs to Google turing award because everyone knows what it is and don't know what the Turing test is.

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Re:Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing ... by plibither8 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:57AM (#19499969)

Maybe elsewhere, but I'm quite certain that the HN crowd did not confuse the two, or even think about linking it with chatbots.

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Re:Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing ... by BlackJack on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:55AM (#19499959)

Maybe for the general public, but I'm sure the HN audience knows much better given the amount of people who studied computer science or are in tech.

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Re:Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing ... by Rainymood on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:02AM (#19499999)

Your downvotes seem to indicate that this is not true.

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