'Godfather of AI' becomes first person to hit one million citations

"Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the search engine Google Scholar. Bengio, who is based at the University of Montreal in Canada, is known for his pioneering research on machine learning. He has been called one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence (AI), alongside computer scientists Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto in Canada and Yann LeCun at the technology company Meta in New York City."

"Bengio's top-cited papers include one he co-authored in 2014 titled Generative Adversarial Nets, which has more than more than 105,000 Google Scholar citations, as well as a Nature review paper he wrote with LeCun and Hinton. The list also includes papers on 'attention', a technique that helps machines to analyse text. Attention became one of the crucial innovations that fuelled the chatbot revolution, starting with ChatGPT in 2022."

Yoshua Bengio reached a milestone as the first person with more than one million Google Scholar citations. Bengio is based at the University of Montreal and is a pioneer in machine learning. He is regarded alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun as a leading figure in artificial intelligence, and the three shared the A. M. Turing Award in 2019 for work on neural networks. Major top-cited works include the 2014 Generative Adversarial Nets paper and a Nature review with LeCun and Hinton. Research on attention mechanisms helped enable the chatbot revolution beginning with ChatGPT in 2022, and machine learning dominates recent high-citation papers.

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