Canada’s AI industry is celebrating Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize win, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his groundbreaking work in machine learning. Hinton, alongside Princeton’s John Hopfield, received the Nobel in physics for their contributions to neural network technology.
Hinton began his work at Carnegie Mellon University in the 1980s and continued making significant advances at the University of Toronto over the following decades. His breakthroughs laid the foundation for modern AI and inspired a generation of researchers. Hinton has also become a leading voice in warning of AI’s potential dangers.
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