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Geoffrey Hinton: The Godfather of Deep Learning

March 16, 2016

When Geof­frey Hin­ton, a researcher at Google and pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, began his work in deep learn­ing in the 1970s, he was told he would spend his life toil­ing away in obscu­ri­ty. Now, four decades lat­er, his research is rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing AI. Read more…