I worked with Bengio for a couple of years, and he's a classic example of a not-particularly-talented mid-level prof who's been elevated by the bubble of hype in his field, attracted some talented students who publish papers on which he ends up as a coauthor... and now thinks he is a voice of authority in AI (and many other fields).
Those who disagree with me -- can you name a single important contribution to the field he has made, that wasn't in fact done by one of his students?
Hinton did backprop, leCun did convnets, Schmidhuber did LSTMs, and Bengio did ... ?
I worked with Bengio for a couple of years, and he's a classic example of a not-particularly-talented mid-level prof who's been elevated by the bubble of hype in his field, attracted some talented students who publish papers on which he ends up as a coauthor... and now thinks he is a voice of authority in AI (and many other fields).
Those who disagree with me -- can you name a single important contribution to the field he has made, that wasn't in fact done by one of his students?
Hinton did backprop, leCun did convnets, Schmidhuber did LSTMs, and Bengio did ... ?