Geoffrey Hinton

Born

December 6, 1947 (age 78)

Known as

computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, university teacher, neuroscientist, psychologist

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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