VentureBeat October 8, 2024
Geoffrey E. Hinton, a leading artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside John J. Hopfield of Princeton University.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded both men the prize of 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately $1.06 million USD), to be shared equally between the laureates.
Hinton has been nicknamed by various outlets and fellow researchers as the “Godfather of AI” due to his revolutionary work in artificial neural networks, a foundational technology underpinning modern artificial intelligence.
Despite the recognition, Hinton has grown increasingly cautious about the future of AI. In 2023, he left his role then at Google’s DeepMind unit to speak more freely about...
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