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Comment by nojs | Hacker News Reader

In case anyone else is confused, this isn’t Yoshua Bengio.

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.

> 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...

I 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.

Why 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?

Yoshua 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.

Samy Bengio managed Timnit Gebru and supported her publicly. His name was in some previous coverage.

Title should be edited to disambiguate

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