University of Toronto’s Geoffrey Hinton Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

University of Toronto’s Geoffrey Hinton Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is photographed backstage at the Collision Conference in Toronto, on June 19, 2024. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
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Geoffrey Hinton, a British-Canadian researcher known as the Godfather of AI whose findings helped spur technological revolution, has won the Nobel Prize in physics.

Hinton, who has spent most of his career at University of Toronto, was awarded the prize along with Princeton University researcher John Hopfield for their work laying the foundations that allow for machine learning using artificial neural networks.