Facebook, Google scientists win $1mn Turing Award for developing AI

Three scientists dubbed the "Godfathers of AI" have won the 2018 Turing Award, which carries a $1-million prize funded by Google. The trio are Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, Google researcher Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio from University of Montreal. The scientists have worked for over 30 years on neural networks that power tasks like facial and speech recognition.