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born 1947 Canada

Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is an English-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist best known for his work on artificial neural networks. Since 2013, he divides his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto.

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It seems very likely to a large number of people that we will get massive unemployment caused by Ai.

I think political systems will use it to terrorize people.

I got Christianity at school and Stalinism at home. I think that was a very good preparation for being a scientist because I got used to the idea that at least half the people are completely wrong.

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (2000)

The reason hidden units in neural nets are called hidden units is that Peter Brown told me about hidden Markov models. I decided "hidden" was a good name for those extra units, so that's where the name "hidden" comes from.

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Geoffrey Hinton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.