godfather
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Bengio is a University of Montreal professor who won the 2018 Turing Award, computing's Nobel, alongside Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the "godfather of AI."
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Inspiration came from a noble predecessor, Charles Ives, the godfather of modern American music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
If spotting a rare creature in the wild wasn't challenging enough, the numbat is a squirrel-sized camouflage connoisseur, explains Dr Tony Friend, the godfather of conservation in the state of Western Australia.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
As for the second question, if I were former Dodgers owner and aerial tram godfather Frank McCourt, I’d fasten my seat belt, because the gondola is about to hit some heavy turbulence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
We’d known Phil since we were young; he was actually Hugo’s godfather.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
Several key figures have since walked out, among them Yann LeCun, considered one of the "godfathers" of modern AI, who had led Meta's AI research since 2013.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
LeCun, often described as one of the godfathers of AI, created an AI research organization inside Facebook in 2013 and became Meta’s chief AI scientist a few years later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
"Because men are pretty easily called godfathers or founding fathers."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
“It’s almost like watching your parents fight. The two godfathers of the industry have divergent opinions on such a fundamental question.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
The next Saturday, Desdemona, seized with conflicting emotions, watched as the children’s godfathers held them above the baptismal font at Assumption.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
