Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the \u201cgodfather of AI\u201d because of his revolutionary neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research brought about a paradigm shift that enabled today\u2019s machine learning technology. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield of Princeton University.<\/p>\n
Hinton holds the title of university professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n
A company he co-founded with two graduate students was acquired by Google in 2013. He joined Google Brain, the company\u2019s AI research team, the same year and was eventually named a vice-president. Hinton left Google in 2023 because he wanted to speak freely about the risks of AI.<\/p>\n
In June, he travelled to China and spoke at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.<\/p>\n
This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus<\/a>. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Was the trip to Shanghai your first visit to China? What are your takeaways from the trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n It was my first trip to China. I\u2019ve had a very bad back, so it\u2019s been very hard to travel for a long time, but now it\u2019s improved. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t come to China sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the \u201cgodfather of AI\u201d because of his revolutionary neural…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[21753,691,48300,106485,24142,42981,738,106484,21749,26441,14498,106488,106487,74,2013,156,106486,2722,106483,63290,158,67,132,68,106482],"class_list":{"0":"post-190362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-agi","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-ai-safety","11":"tag-andrew-yao","12":"tag-anthropic","13":"tag-artificial-general-intelligence-agi","14":"tag-artificial-intelligence","15":"tag-artificial-superintelligence-asi","16":"tag-asi","17":"tag-biden-administration","18":"tag-britain","19":"tag-canadian-banks","20":"tag-chen-jining","21":"tag-china","22":"tag-deepseek","23":"tag-france","24":"tag-geoffrey-hinton","25":"tag-google","26":"tag-google-brain","27":"tag-nobel-prize","28":"tag-technology","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-world-artificial-intelligence-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115126224985807347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}