Hinton is referred to by some as the Godfather of AI, and for good reason. His work in the field started way back in the early 70s.
TL;DR: Geoffrey Hinton, one of the most respected names in the artificial intelligence community, has left his job at Google to speak out about the dangers that AI pose now and in the future.
Hinton is referred to by some as the Godfather of AI, and for good reason. His work in the field started way back in the early 70s as a grad student at the University of Edinburgh where he was drawn to the idea of neural networks. Few researchers at the time believed the concept had merit but as The New York Times notes, Hinton made it his life’s work.
As a professor in 2012, Hinton and two of his students created a breakthrough neural network that could analyze images and identify common items in the photos. The following year, Google acquired Hinton’s company, DNNresearch, for $44 million and brought him on to continue his work.
