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?<\/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":2,"featured_media":123617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[49096,182,13208,79140,184,79143,181,79139,507,79137,72427,7676,79142,79141,144,18732,594,10955,168,79138,31277,74,35409],"class_list":["post-123616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-agi","tag-ai","tag-ai-safety","tag-andrew-yao","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-general-intelligence-agi","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-superintelligence-asi","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asi","tag-biden-administration","tag-britain","tag-canadian-banks","tag-chen-jining","tag-china","tag-deepseek","tag-france","tag-geoffrey-hinton","tag-google","tag-google-brain","tag-nobel-prize","tag-technology","tag-world-artificial-intelligence-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}