Geoffrey Hinton

4 entries between March 2019 and October 2024.

Every entry

  1. Nobel physics prize goes to Hopfield and Hinton

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton on 8 October 2024 for foundational discoveries that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. They shared 11 million Swedish kronor.

  2. AI researchers and executives sign a statement on extinction risk

    The Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement on 30 May 2023, saying that reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority beside pandemics and nuclear war. Hundreds signed, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman.

  3. Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google to speak about AI risk

    Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing Award winner for his work on deep learning and a vice president at Google, said on 1 May 2023 that he had left the company after a decade. He told The New York Times he wanted to speak freely about the risks of the systems he had helped build.

  4. Turing Award goes to Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun

    The Association for Computing Machinery named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award on 27 March 2019, for the work that made deep neural networks a central component of computing. The prize carries $1 million, funded by Google.