AI: Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics!

Geoffrey Hinton - Wikipedia

Geoffrey Everest Hinton CC FRS FRSC[9] (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, known for his work on artificial neural networks which earned him the title as the "Godfather of AI".

In 2024, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with John Hopfield "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." His development of the Boltzmann machine was explicitly mentioned in the citation.

Nobel Prize winner AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says he's proud his student fired OpenAI boss Sam Altman | Fortune

“...I’m particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman. And I think I better leave it there.”

Hinton was referring to Ilya Sutskever. The former chief scientist at OpenAI joined Helen Toner and two others on the controlling nonprofit board to sack their CEO in a spectacular coup last November. Sutskever quickly regretted his role plunging OpenAI into crisis and Altman was returned to his role in a matter of days.

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Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize! It’s wonderful to see pioneering work in AI recognized, and this will be good for our whole field.

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Announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics - YouTube