Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics, is a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence. He is internationally renowned for his foundational contributions to deep learning and neural networks.

Hinton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside John J. Hopfield “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks,” including his invention of the Boltzmann machine, which applied statistical physics techniques to machine learning. In 2018, he received the Association for Computing Machinery’s A.M. Turing Award alongside Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, “for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.”

Hinton is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, a former Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google, and a co-founder of the AI Safety Foundation, where he continues to advocate for the responsible development of advanced AI systems.