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Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton

Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto; Former VP at Google
Year of Birth  1947
Nationality  Canada/UK

Important milestone

Backpropagation revival

1986 – Revitalized neural nets via backpropagation algorithms.

Guides AlexNet

2012 – Oversaw the AlexNet team’s ImageNet win.

Warns on AI risk

2023 – Left Google to address AGI safety concerns.

Personal Profile

Called the ‘Godfather of Deep Learning,’ Hinton revolutionized neural networks, backpropagation, and mentored the AlexNet team, ushering in the modern AI era.

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