Geoffrey Everest Hinton
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cognitive psychologist
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and
computer scientist
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, most noted for his work on
artificial neural networks
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. Since 2013, he has divided his time working for
Google
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(
Google Brain
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) and the
University of Toronto
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. In 2017, he co-founded and became the Chief Scientific Advisor of the
Vector Institute in Toronto.
With
David Rumelhart
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and
Ronald J. Williams
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, Hinton was co-author of a highly cited paper published in 1986 that popularized the
backpropagation
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algorithm for training multi-layer neural networks,
[ although they were not the first to propose the approach.] Hinton is viewed as a leading figure in the deep learning
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community. The dramatic image-recognition milestone of the AlexNet
AlexNet is the name of a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, designed by Alex Krizhevsky in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, who was Krizhevsky's Ph.D. advisor.
AlexNet competed in the ImageNet Large Scale Visu ...
designed in collaboration with his students Alex Krizhevsky
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and Ilya Sutskever
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He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Ge ...
for the ImageNet challenge 2012 was a breakthrough in the field of computer vision.
Hinton received the 2018 Turing Award
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, together with Yoshua Bengio
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and Yann LeCun
Yann André LeCun ( , ; originally spelled Le Cun; born 8 July 1960) is a French computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor ...
, for their work on deep learning. They are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI" and "Godfathers of Deep Learning", and have continued to give public talks together.
Education
Hinton was educated at King's College, Cambridge
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, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts
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in experimental psychology.[ He continued his study at the ]University of Edinburgh
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where he was awarded a Ph.D.
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in artificial intelligence
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in 1978 for research supervised by Christopher Longuet-Higgins
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Career and research
After his Ph.D., he worked at the University of Sussex
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and, (after difficulty finding funding in Britain),[ the ]University of California, San Diego
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and Carnegie Mellon University
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.[ He was the founding director of the ]Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London
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[ and ][https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/fullcv.pdf ] a professor
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in the computer science
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department at the University of Toronto
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. He holds a Canada Research Chair
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Program goals
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in Machine Learning and is currently an advisor for the ''Learning in Machines & Brains'' program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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. Hinton taught a free online course on Neural Networks on the education platform Coursera
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in 2012. Hinton joined Google
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in March 2013 when his company, DNNresearch Inc., was acquired. He is planning to "divide his time between his university research and his work at Google".
Hinton's research investigates ways of using neural networks for machine learning
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Machine ...
, memory
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, perception
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and symbol processing. He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer review
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ed publications. At the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeuRIPS) 2022, Hinton introduced a new learning algorithm for neural networks that he calls the "Forward-Forward" algorithm. The idea of the new algorithm is to replace the traditional forward-backward passes of backpropagation with two forward passes, one with positive (i.e. real) data and the other with negative data which could be generated by the network itself.
While Hinton was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University
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(1982–1987), David E. Rumelhart
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and Hinton and Ronald J. Williams
Ronald J. Williams is professor of computer science at Northeastern University, and one of the pioneers of neural networks. He co-authored a paper on the backpropagation algorithm which triggered a boom in neural network research. He also made fund ...
applied the backpropagation algorithm to multi-layer neural networks. Their experiments showed that such networks can learn useful internal representations of data. In an interview of 2018, Hinton said that "David E. Rumelhart
David Everett Rumelhart (June 12, 1942 – March 13, 2011) was an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artific ...
came up with the basic idea of backpropagation, so it's his invention." Although this work was important in popularizing backpropagation, it was not the first to suggest the approach. Reverse-mode automatic differentiation
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, of which backpropagation is a special case, was proposed by Seppo Linnainmaa
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in 1970, and Paul Werbos
Paul John Werbos (born 1947) is an American social scientist and machine learning pioneer. He is best known for his 1974 dissertation, which first described the process of training artificial neural networks through backpropagation of errors. He ...
proposed to use it to train neural networks in 1974.
During the same period, Hinton co-invented Boltzmann machine
A Boltzmann machine (also called Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model with external field or stochastic Ising–Lenz–Little model) is a stochastic spin-glass model with an external field, i.e., a Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model, that is a stochastic ...
s with David Ackley and Terry Sejnowski
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. His other contributions to neural network research include distributed representation
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An ANN is based on a collection of connected unit ...
s, time delay neural network
Time delay neural network (TDNN) Alexander Waibel, Tashiyuki Hanazawa, Geoffrey Hinton, Kiyohito Shikano, Kevin J. Lang, Phoneme Recognition Using Time-Delay Neural Networks', IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Volume 3 ...
, mixtures of experts, Helmholtz machines and Product of Experts
Product of experts (PoE) is a machine learning technique. It models a probability distribution by combining the output from several simpler distributions.
It was proposed by Geoffrey Hinton, along with an algorithm for training the parameters of su ...
. In 2007 Hinton coauthored an unsupervised learning
Unsupervised learning is a type of algorithm that learns patterns from untagged data. The hope is that through mimicry, which is an important mode of learning in people, the machine is forced to build a concise representation of its world and t ...
paper titled ''Unsupervised learning of image transformations''. An accessible introduction to Geoffrey Hinton's research can be found in his articles in ''Scientific American
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'' in September 1992 and October 1993.
In October and November 2017 respectively, Hinton published two open access
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research papers on the theme of capsule neural network A capsule neural network (CapsNet) is a machine learning system that is a type of artificial neural network (ANN) that can be used to better model hierarchical relationships. The approach is an attempt to more closely mimic biological neural organiz ...
s, which according to Hinton are "finally something that works well."
Notable former PhD students and postdoctoral research
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ers from his group include Peter Dayan
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, Sam Roweis,[ ]Max Welling
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,[ Richard Zemel,][ ]Brendan Frey
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,[ ]Radford M. Neal
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,[ ]Yee Whye Teh
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, Ruslan Salakhutdinov,[ ]Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a computer scientist working in machine learning, who co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist of OpenAI.
He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Ge ...
,[ ]Yann LeCun
Yann André LeCun ( , ; originally spelled Le Cun; born 8 July 1960) is a French computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor ...
, Alex Graves
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Early life
Alex Graves was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His father, William Graves, was a reporter for ''Th ...
,[ and ]Zoubin Ghahramani
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.
Honours and awards
Hinton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1998.[ He was the first winner of the ]Rumelhart Prize
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in 2001. His certificate of election for the Royal Society reads:
In 2001, Hinton was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
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from the University of Edinburgh
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. He was the 2005 recipient of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
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lifetime-achievement award. He has also been awarded the 2011 Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. In 2013, Hinton was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Université de Sherbrooke
The University of Sherbrooke ( French: Université de Sherbrooke) (UdS) is a large public French-language university in Quebec, Canada with campuses located in Sherbrooke and Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal approximately west of Sherbrooke. It ...
.
In 2016, he was elected a foreign member of National Academy of Engineering
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"For contributions to the theory and practice of artificial neural networks and their application to speech recognition and computer vision". He also received the 2016 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award.
He has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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(2016) in the Information and Communication Technologies category "for his pioneering and highly influential work" to endow machines with the ability to learn.
Together with Yann LeCun
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, and Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de ...
, Hinton won the 2018 Turing Award
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for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
In 2018, he was awarded a Companion of the Order of Canada
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. In 2022 he received the Princess of Asturias Award
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in the category "Scientific Research", along with Yann LeCun
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, Yoshua Bengio
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, and Demis Hassabis
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.
Personal life
Hinton is the great-great-grandson of the mathematician and educator Mary Everest Boole
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and her husband, the logician George Boole
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, whose work eventually became one of the foundations of modern computer science. Another great-great-grandfather was the surgeon and author James Hinton James Hinton may refer to:
* James Hinton (musician) (born 1988), American musician known as The Range
*James Hinton (surgeon) (1822–1875), English surgeon and author
* James E. Hinton (c. 1937–2006), American cinematographer
*James Myles Hinto ...
, who was the father of Charles Howard Hinton
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. Hinton's father was Howard Hinton.[ His middle name comes from another relative, ]George Everest
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After receiving a military education in Marlow, Everest joined ...
. He is the nephew of the economist Colin Clark. He lost his second wife to ovarian cancer in 1994.
Views
Hinton moved from the U.S. to Canada in part due to disillusionment with Ronald Reagan
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-era politics and disapproval of military funding of artificial intelligence.[
Hinton has petitioned against ]lethal autonomous weapon
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s. Regarding existential risk from artificial intelligence, Hinton typically declines to make predictions more than five years into the future, noting that exponential progress makes the uncertainty too great.
Hinton is optimistic about AI’s impact on the job market: “The phrase ‘artificial general intelligence’ carries with it the implication that this sort of single robot is suddenly going to be smarter than you. I don’t think it’s going to be that. I think more and more of the routine things we do are going to be replaced by AI systems — like the Google Assistant.”
Hinton argues that AGI won’t make humans redundant. Rather, he says, it will remain for the most part myopic in its understanding of the world — at least in the near future. He believes that it’ll continue to improve our lives in small but meaningful ways. “ I in the future isgoing to know a lot about what you’re probably going to want to do and how to do it, and it’s going to be very helpful. But it’s not going to replace you,” he said. “If you took system that was developed to be able to be very good t driving and you sent it on its first date, I think it would be a disaster.” And for dangerous tasks currently performed by humans, that’s a step in the right direction, according to Hinton.
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