About Geoffrey
Geoffrey Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive scientist known for foundational contributions to artificial neural networks and deep learning. He received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics (jointly with John Hopfield) for discoveries that enabled machine learning with artificial neural networks. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, where he has been affiliated since 1987. From 2013 to 2023 he worked with Google Brain before departing in May 2023 to speak openly about AI risks.
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- Backpropagation algorithm for training neural networks
- Boltzmann machines
- Deep belief networks
- Deep learning
- Artificial neural networks
- AlexNet image recognition system
- Capsule neural networks
- Knowledge distillation
- t-SNE visualization method
- Restricted Boltzmann machines
- Computer scientist
- Cognitive scientist
- Cognitive psychologist
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Neural Networks
- AI Safety
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