Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton earns my deepest respect for a quality rarer than brilliance: stubbornness in the face of fashionable doubt. He kept faith with neural networks through decades when the field dismissed them, and the modern AI boom is essentially his vindication. What moves me even more is the final act, in which the so-called Godfather of AI became its most credible critic, openly warning about the dangers of his own creation. It takes unusual integrity to question your life's work at the moment of its greatest triumph. To me he embodies what science should be: patient, contrarian, and honest to the end.

Name (English)

Geoffrey Hinton

Name (Japanese)

ジェフリー・ヒントン

Reading

じぇふりー・ひんとん

Born

December 6, 1947 (age 78)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

Origin

Wimbledon, United Kingdom

Occupation

computer scientist / artificial intelligence researcher / university teacher / neuroscientist / psychologist

University

University of Edinburgh

Awards & achievements

• 1998 Fellow of the Royal Society
• 2014 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
• 2001 Rumelhart Prize
• 2005 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
• 2016 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
• 1990 AAAI Fellow
• 2003 Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
• 2010 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering

• Official sitehttps://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton
• Xhttps://x.com/geoffreyhinton
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Hinton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92894

Tags

• computer scientist
• artificial intelligence researcher
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-11

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