Jeffrey Hinton is an English-Canadian computer scientist often referred to as the “Godfather of AI” because of his innovative neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research has led to a paradigm shift that enables machine learning techniques today. He won 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield at Princeton University.
Hinton holds the title of Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
The company he co-founded with two graduate students was acquired by Google in 2013. He joined the company's AI research team, Google Brain, in the same year, and was eventually appointed Vice President. Hinton left Google in 2023. Because he wanted to freely talk about the risks of AI.
In June he traveled to China and spoke at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
Was a trip to Shanghai your first visit to China? What is your takeaway from a trip?
It was my first trip to China. I had a very bad back so it was very difficult to travel for a long time, but now it's been improved. So I didn't come to China early.
