Geoffrey Hinton, the oft-named godfather of AI, has gotten into a row with Elon Musk on the billionaire’s own social media platform over his Fellowship at the prestigious Royal Society’s ...

Geoffrey Hinton is one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, critical in the development of deep learning, backpropagation and much more. In 2024 he was awarded the Nobel prize in ...

By the early 2000s, Hinton’s graduate students at U of T were beginning to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to train neural networks for image recognition tasks and their success suggested that ...

The great-great-grandson of the mathematician and educator Mary Everest Boole and George Boole, the logician who first defined an algebraic system of logic, which proved to be essential in ...

Elon Musk and Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneering artificial intelligence (A.I.) academic often referred to as the “Godfather of A.I.,” are seemingly aligned on the threats posed by the emerging ...