Geoffrey Hinton
Cognitive Psychologist & Computer Scientist
Biography
Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
Career Timeline
Hinton was born on 6 December 1947 in Wimbledon in the United Kingdom and was educated at Clifton College in Bristol.
In 1985, Hinton co-invented Boltzmann machines with David Ackley and Terry Sejnowski.
He is currently[update] University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he has been affiliated since 1987.
Hinton is a Fellow of the US Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (FAAAI) since 1990.
Hinton's first wife, Rosalind Zalin, died of ovarian cancer in 1994; his second wife, Jacqueline "Jackie" Ford, died of pancreatic cancer in 2018.
In 2001, Hinton was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from the University of Edinburgh.
Hinton taught a free online course on Neural Networks on the education platform Coursera in 2012.
Archived from the original on 11 November 2016.
Notable Quotes
"I think political systems will use it to terrorize people."
"Heaven, Will Douglas (May 2, 2023). Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build. MIT Technology Review."
"It seems very likely to a large number of people that we will get massive unemployment caused by Ai."