2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research

Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio are considered the ‘godfathers’ of an essential technique in artificial intelligence, called ‘deep learning’, which is based on the use of neural networks for voice recognition, computer vision and natural language processing, and has enabled advances in fields as diverse as object perception and machine translation.

Demis Hassabis is CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, one of the largest artificial intelligence research companies in the world, founded in 2011 and acquired in 2014 by Google (2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities). At DeepMind, Hassabis has created a neural network model that combines the capabilities of an artificial neural network with the algorithmic power of a programmable computer