The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg’s highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup

LeCun, 65, joined Facebook in December 2013 as the founding director of Fundamental AI Research, known as FAIR. He remains a ...
InfoQ

Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning Algorithm

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. This article dives into the happens-before ...
The Financial Express

Who is Yann LeCun? Alexandr Wang’s teammate is set to leave Meta to launch a new venture

Yann LeCun, a "Godfather of AI" and Meta's Chief AI Scientist, is reportedly leaving to start his own venture, amidst Meta's ...
Semiconductor Engineering

In Situ Backpropagation Strategy That Progressively Updates Neural Network Layers Directly in HW (TU Eindhoven)

A new technical paper titled “Hardware implementation of backpropagation using progressive gradient descent for in situ training of multilayer neural networks” was published by researchers at ...
EurekAlert!

A backpropagation algorithm for mechanical neural networks (IMAGE)

Obtaining the gradient of what's known as the loss function is an essential step to establish the backpropagation algorithm developed by University of Michigan researchers to train a material. The ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Backpropagation Algorithm On Neuromorphic Spiking HW (U. Of Zurich, ETH Zurich, LANL)

A new technical paper titled “The backpropagation algorithm implemented on spiking neuromorphic hardware” was published by University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Royal ...
Diginomica

Generative AI needs better context - you can't talk about Large Language Models without reverse neural networks and backpropagation

The hype over Large Language Models (LLMs) has reached a fever pitch. But how much of the hype is justified? We can't answer that without some straight talk - and some definitions. Time for a ...
The Economist

AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns

Five DECADES of research into artificial neural networks have earned Geoffrey Hinton the moniker of the Godfather of artificial intelligence (AI). Work by his group at the University of Toronto laid ...
InfoWorld

Styles of machine learning: Intro to neural networks

Modeled on the human brain, neural networks are one of the most common styles of machine learning. Get started with the basic design and concepts of artificial neural networks. Artificial intelligence ...