2024-04-11
Big congratulations to Avi Wigderson of IAS Princeton for winning the Turing Award in CS. Truly an all-time great in theoretical computer science and discrete math. Also one of the nicest human beings I know —friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/...
Quanta Magazine
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrizat...
2023-05-01
Major news in AI today. Hinton is the father of modern deep learning and AI. Lecun and Bengio were his postdocs. @ilyasut of OpenAI was his student. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.