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Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton

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Geoffrey Hinton -- Born: 1947-12-06. Occupation: artificial intelligence researcher. Employer: Carnegie Mellon University. Education: King's College. Awards: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

Born1947-12-06

Occupationartificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist, neuroscientist, psychologist

EmployerCarnegie Mellon University, Google, University of Toronto

EducationKing's College, University of Edinburgh

AwardsBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Fellow of the Royal Society, IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, Rumelhart Prize

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“What’s happening is these things are getting smarter,”
cnn.com2026-08-06Source
“I think as they get smarter, we’re going to see more and more complex intentions they have – and more and more ability to escape control.”
cnn.com2026-08-06Source
“my guess is in between five and 20 years from now there’s a probability of half that we’ll have to confront the problem of AI trying to take over”
BBC News2024-10-08Source
“I had no idea this would happen. I'm very surprised,”
BBC News2024-10-08Source
“It’s going to be like the Industrial Revolution - but instead of our physical capabilities, it’s going to exceed our intellectual capabilities,”
BBC News2024-10-08Source
“This stuff will get smarter than us and take over,”
TIME2023-09-07Source
“And if you want to know what that feels like, ask a chicken.”
TIME2023-09-07Source
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“So the good news is, we’ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is, it’s not for us.”
The Guardian2023-05-05Source
“Sometimes I think it’s as if aliens had landed and people haven’t realized because they speak very good English.”
MIT Technology Review2023-05-02Source
“I was kind of weird because I did this stuff everyone else thought was nonsense,”
CBS News2023-03-25Source
“I use it to mean AI that is at least as good as humans at nearly all of the cognitive things that humans do.”
AP News2024-04-04Source
“I think one thing governments can do is force the big companies to spend a lot more of their resources on safety research.”
NobelPrize.org2024-10-08Source

Works Timeline

1986
  • Learning representations by back-propagating errorsPaper
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