Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive scientist in physics known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title “the Godfather of AI”. Hinto is a University Professor Emeritus at the University from 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google and the University of Toronto before publicly announcing his separation from Google so that he would be able to speak out about the risks of AI freely. He is the co-founder and the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto in 2017. He became the founding director of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation Computational Neuroscience Unit at the University College London. He co-founded DNNresearch Inc. He wrote more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. In 1985, Hinton co-invented Boltzmann machines alongside David Ackley and Terry Sejnowski. Hinton is known for his work on artificial neural nets, especially how they can be designed to learn without the aid of a human teacher. His work includes studies of mental imagery and inventing puzzles for testing original and creative intelligence. He has always been a vocal supporter of how AI neural nets work, and his one of the top speakers to attend AI events all over the globe 

 

Personal Info:
Born: 6 December 1947
Organization: The Godfather of AI
Location: Wimbledon, London 
Graduation: graduated with a BA degree in Experimental Psychology in 1970 at the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a PhD in artificial intelligence in 1978 for research supervised by Christopher Longuet-Higgins 

 

Experience:

• Worked  as a professor at the University of Sussex in  the MRC Applied Psychology Unit
• Currently serving  as the University Professor Emeritus in the computer science department at the University of Toronto since 1987
• Got appointed at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) in 1987 as a fellow in CIFAR’s first research
• program, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Society
• In 2012, He co-founded DNNresearch Inc 
• He has written more than 200 peer-reviewed publications
• In 1985, Hinton co-invented Boltzmann machines with other fellow mated
• In October 2017, Hinton published two open-access research papers on the theme of capsule neural networks