Geoffrey Hinton (b. 1947)

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"Redwood Center Lecture on Deep Learning" — March 22, 2010

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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.

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1972 Event

Started his PhD in artificial intelligence at Edinburgh. Most researchers thought neural networks were a dead end. His supervisor told him to work on something else.

What kept you going when your supervisor said to work on something else? How lonely was neural network research in the 1970s?

1986 Event

Co-authored the paper on backpropagation that made deep learning practical. It showed how a neural network could learn by adjusting its own internal connections.

Did you know the backpropagation paper would eventually change everything? How long before anyone took it seriously?

2012 Event

His student team won the ImageNet competition by a margin that stunned the field. Their deep neural network slashed the error rate from 26% to 16%. Google hired him immediately.

What went through your mind when your students slashed the error rate by 10 points? Was that the moment you knew deep learning would win?

2024 Event

Won the Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational work on artificial neural networks. Then publicly warned that the technology he helped create might pose an existential risk to humanity.

How do you win a Nobel Prize and then warn the world about your own creation? Are you afraid of what you built?

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