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Geoffrey Hinton

AI researcher · shared the 2018 Turing Award and 2024 Physics Nobel

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Geoffrey Hinton
Hinton rejects control-centered approach at Ai4 conference

A move from 2023's risk warnings to a 2025 alignment prescription. Head-on skepticism toward alignment strategies built on control and obedience

Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton raises the odds of AI wiping out humanity in 30 years to 10–20%

Turned a qualitative warning into a number. Since then, the most widely cited reference value in the p(doom) debate

Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton talks to MIT Technology Review right after leaving Google

A public change of position by one of the founders of deep learning. The turning point at which discussion of AI existential risk moved from the fringe into the mainstream press

Jimmy Lei Ba, Jamie Ryan Kiros, Geoffrey Hinton
Ba, Kiros and Hinton publish Layer Normalization on arXiv

Normalization that does not depend on the batch. Once the Transformer adopted it, it became a de facto basic component

Geoffrey Hinton, Oriol Vinyals, Jeff Dean (Google)
Google publishes Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network on arXiv

Formalized distillation, which transfers a large model's knowledge to a small model. The root of today's small-model lineage

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey Hinton
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (AlexNet)

Established in a paper the combination of GPUs, large-scale data and deep CNNs. The conventional starting point of the current deep learning era

SuperVision (Krizhevsky, Sutskever, Hinton, University of Toronto)
SuperVision wins ILSVRC 2012 with a 15.3% top-5 error rate

The turning point at which, with a wide margin over second place, deep CNNs became the mainstream methodology of computer vision

Geoffrey Hinton et al. (University of Toronto)
Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors

Curbed overfitting with simple regularization and later became a standard technique

Geoffrey Hinton, Li Deng, Dong Yu et al. (University of Toronto, Microsoft, Google, IBM)
Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition

Separate industry groups confirmed the same shift (HMM→DNN), and deep learning became the industry standard for speech recognition

Vinod Nair, Geoffrey Hinton
Rectified Linear Units Improve Restricted Boltzmann Machines

An early paper demonstrating the advantages of ReLU, which later became the standard activation function

Geoffrey Hinton, Simon Osindero, Yee-Whye Teh
A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets

Showed once again that deep networks can be trained, sparking the revival of deep learning in the 2000s

David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, Ronald Williams
Learning representations by back-propagating errors

Showed that hidden layers learn useful internal representations for a task on their own, making the training of multilayer neural networks practical