Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Everest Hinton [8] (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist. He is known for his work on artificial intelligence (AI). He has been called the "godfather of artificial intelligence".[9]
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From 2013 to 2023, he worked for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto. In May 2023, he left Google so that he could 'freely' talk about the risks of AI.[10][11]
Hinton received the 2018 Turing Award for his work on deep learning.[12]
Hinton was awarded with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing it with John Hopfield, becoming the first person to win both the Turing and Physics Nobel awards.[13][14][15][a]
Early life
Hinton was born in Wimbledon, London. He studied at Clifton College in Bristol[17] and King's College, Cambridge. He originally studied natural sciences, history of art, and philosophy, but graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in experimental psychology.
He continued his study at the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a PhD in artificial intelligence in 1978.[18]
Career
Hinton was co-wrote a highly cited paper published in 1986 that made the backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural networks popular.
Hinton's research focuses on using neural networks for machine learning, memory, perception, and symbol processing. He has written or co-written more than 200 peer reviewed publications.
In 1985, Hinton co-invented Boltzmann machines with David Ackley and Terry Sejnowski.[19]
In May 2023, Hinton announced his resignation from Google to be able to "freely speak out about the risks of A.I."[11] He has voiced concerns about deliberate misuse by malicious actors, technological unemployment, and existential risk from artificial general intelligence.[20] He noted that establishing safety guidelines will require cooperation among those competing in use of AI in order to avoid the worst outcomes.[21]
Personal life
Hinton's second wife, Rosalind Zalin, died of ovarian cancer in 1994; his third wife, Jackie, died in September 2018, also of cancer.[22] Hinton has two children.
Hinton moved from the United States to Canada because he did not like the Ronald Reagan-era politics and military funding of artificial intelligence.
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In 2016, from left to right,Russ Salakhutdinov, Richard S. Sutton, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Steve Jurvetson
Notes
- ↑ Herbert A. Simon is the first person to win a Turing Award and a Nobel Prize in general[16]
References
- ↑ Anon (2015) ,. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc.
- ↑ Zemel, Richard Stanley (1994). A minimum description length framework for unsupervised learning. University of Toronto. ProQuest 304161918. .
- ↑ Frey, Brendan John (1998). Bayesian networks for pattern classification, data compression, and channel coding. University of Toronto. ProQuest 304396112. .
- ↑ Neal, Radford (1995). Bayesian learning for neural networks. University of Toronto. ProQuest 304260778. .
- ↑ Whye Teh, Yee (2003) (in en). Bethe free energy and contrastive divergence approximations for undirected graphical models. University of Toronto. . ProQuest 305242430. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/122253. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ↑ Salakhutdinov, Ruslan (2009). Learning deep generative models. University of Toronto. ProQuest 577365583. . .
- ↑ Sutskever, Ilya (2013) (in en). Training Recurrent Neural Networks. University of Toronto. . ProQuest 1501655550. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/36012. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ↑ Anon (1998). "Professor Geoffrey Hinton FRS". Royal Society. London. Archived from the original on 3 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ↑ ""Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of new AI". CBS News. 25 March 2023. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/godfather-of-artificial-intelligence-talks-impact-and-potential-of-new-ai/. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ↑ Douglas Heaven, Will (1 May 2023). "Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Metz, Cade (1 May 2023). "'The Godfather of A.I.' Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
- ↑ Chung, Emily (27 March 2019). "Canadian researchers who taught AI to learn like humans win $1M award" (in en). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/turing-award-ai-deep-learning-1.5070415. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ↑ Geoffrey Hinton from University of Toronto awarded Nobel Prize in Physics. CBC News. 8 October 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/nobel-prize-physics-2024-1.7344607. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physics: Statistical Physics and Machine Learning, Whats the connection?". Medium. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ↑ "Former CMU Faculty Geoffrey Hinton Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics". CMU.edu. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ↑ Onstad, Katrina (2018-01-29). "Mr. Robot". Toronto Life. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ Hinton, Geoffrey Everest (1977). Relaxation and its role in vision. University of Edinburgh. . EThOS uk.bl.ethos.482889. https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/8121. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ↑ Ackley, David H; Hinton Geoffrey E; Sejnowski, Terrence J (1985), "A learning algorithm for Boltzmann machines", Cognitive science, Elsevier, 9 (1): 147–169
- ↑ ""Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of new AI". CBS News. 25 March 2023. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/godfather-of-artificial-intelligence-talks-impact-and-potential-of-new-ai/. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ↑ Erlichman, Jon, '50-50 chance' that AI outsmarts humanity, Geoffrey Hinton says, BNN Bloomberg, June 14, 2024
- ↑ Rothman, Joshua (13 November 2023). "Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He's Built". The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/geoffrey-hinton-profile-ai. Retrieved 27 November 2023.