Machines that dream

The following interview is one of many included in the report. As part of my ongoing series of interviews surveying the frontiers of machine intelligence, I recently interviewed Yoshua Bengio. Bengio is a professor with the department of computer science and operations research at the University of Montreal, where he is head of the Machine Learning Laboratory (MILA) and serves as the Canada Research Chair in statistical learning algorithms. The goal of his research is to understand the principles of learning that yield intelligence. Yoshua Bengio: I have been researching neural networks since the '80s.