Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, and Nobel laureate in physics, known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI".

Mar 3, 2025 · Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence with his work on neural network models.

May 2, 2023 · Geoffrey Hinton, 75, announced his resignation from Google in a statement to the New York Times, saying he now regretted his work.

Nov 13, 2023 · Joshua Rothman joins Geoffrey Hinton on his island and learns why the neural-network pioneer thinks A.I. systems, like Open AI’s ChatGPT, could grow too smart to remain …

Information for prospective students, postdocs and visitors: I will not be taking any more students, postdocs or visitors. Basic papers on deep learning LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y. and Hinton, G. E. (2015) Deep Learning Nature, Vol. 521, pp 436-444. [pdf] Hinton, G. E., Osindero, S. and Teh, Y. (2006) A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets.

Oct 8, 2024 · Geoffrey Hinton, a University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

May 2, 2023 · Hinton is best known for his work on a technique called backpropagation, which he proposed (with a pair of colleagues) in the 1980s. In a nutshell, this is the algorithm that allows...

Oct 10, 2024 · Widely regarded as “the godfather of AI,” Hinton was named a co-winner of the prize – alongside John J. Hopfield of Princeton University – for his work on Boltzmann machines and artificial neural networks, which laid the groundwork for advancements in AI and stimulated new research directions in physics.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded jointly to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"

Oct 8, 2024 · Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and ’90s underpins all of the most powerful AI models in the world today, has been awarded the 2024...