Consciousness and COVID-19 with Yoshua Bengio - #361

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

Episode | Podcast

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0000

Today we’re joined by one of, if not the most cited computer scientist in the world, Yoshua Bengio, Professor at the University of Montreal and the Founder and Scientific Director of MILA. We caught up with Yoshua to explore his work on consciousness, including how Yoshua defines consciousness, his paper “The Consciousness Prior,” as well as his current endeavor in building a COVID-19 tracing application, and the use of ML to propose experimental candidate drugs.