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Geoffrey Hinton

Computer scientist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 2024

United Kingdom / Canada · b. 1947

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British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist whose work on neural networks underpins modern machine learning. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics and has warned publicly about risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

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Question What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong? Change of mind read 6 other answers →

I always thought superintelligence was a long way off and we could worry about it later, and the problem for now is just to make these more intelligent. I wish I'd thought sooner about what was going to happen.

Recorded Adam Smith, Nobel Week in Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 10 September 3200 source ↗

Question Which decision paid off only after many years, when its value could not yet be proved? Time & hindsight read 5 other answers →

I would like to have been concerned about this existential threat sooner.

Recorded Adam Smith, Nobel Week in Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 10 September 3200 source ↗

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