Geoffrey Hinton is 78 years old. A Turing Award and Nobel laureate in Physics, he's known as the godfather of AI because the underlying method for all large models today—backpropagation in neural networks—includes a copy from forty years ago. In the spring of 2023, he resigned from Google for one reason: he wanted to speak his mind freely, without the constraints of an employer. He said that part of his life's work now makes him regretful. There…
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Geoffrey Hinton is 78 years old. A Turing Award and Nobel laureate in Physics, he's known as the godfather of AI because the underlying method for all large models today—backpropagation in neural networks—includes a copy from forty years ago. In the spring of 2023, he resigned from Google for one reason: he wanted to speak his mind freely, without the constraints of an employer. He said that part of his life's work now makes him regretful. There…