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It's about Samy Bengio (who is Yoshua's brother and technically related). It is confusing though, and the title should be updated to avoid confusion.
by mwambua 6y ago
It's about Samy Bengio (who is Yoshua's brother and technically related). It is confusing though, and the title should be updated to avoid confusion.
- jonas21 6y ago> Reporting by Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin, additional reporting by Munsif Vengattil; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Anil D’Silva It's kind of incredible that at least 5 people at Reuters worked on this story, yet nobody stopped to think that this would be a confusing headline. Or, if you want to be cynical, maybe they knew it would be confusing, but also that it would get more clicks...
- codetrotter 6y agoI dunno how Reuters works, but afaik in newspapers it’s often different people that write the article and who decide what the title will be. So if Reuters is anything like that then 5 people may not have had much to do with the title.
- gowld 6y agoWhy do you expect many people at Reuters to know who Yoshia Bengio is? And even if they did, why would expect a non trivial portion of readers to know?
- jonas21 6y agoYoshua Bengio recently won a Turing Award, which was covered widely in the press at the time. He also appears frequently in other news articles (for example, 14 articles in the New York Times). So yes, I would expect most people in the "Technology News" section at Reuters to at least be familiar with his name. And even if they didn't expect many readers to know who Yoshua Bengio is, he's still more well-known than Samy.
- pseudalopex 6y agoSamy Bengio managed Timnit Gebru and supported her publicly. His name was in some previous coverage.