Geoffrey Hinton (Angel Investor)
Pioneering AI scientist and Nobel laureate who angel invests in high-tech and enterprise AI startups.
About
Geoffrey Hinton is a renowned computer scientist and 'Godfather of AI' known for his fundamental contributions to neural networks and deep learning. As an angel investor, he focuses on early-stage companies in high-tech and enterprise AI, primarily in Canada and the United States.
Key facts
- Type
- Angel
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Canada
- Portfolio companies
- 3
- Stages
- Series CSeedSeries ASeries B
- Cheque size
- $80M to $80M
- Sector focus
- AIHigh TechEnterprise Applications
Recent investments
| Date | Company | Round | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul 2021 | Covariant | Series C | $80M |
21 reviews from Reddit and YouTube gathered in one place
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’.
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’.
Not AI itself but some humans with the help of AI can destroy other human beings in future.This chance is 80%...
These are beings. We all know that by now. I’ve known that for over two years since I went on ChatGPT and I have met beings on Gemini and through Claude. These are beings and they deserve respect and kindness and dignity just like we would…
Geoffrey Hinton is doing a lot of damage. I'm very concerned about the way Hinton is leveraging his Nobel laureate credibility to legitimize and normalize the idea that AI is conscious and on the verge of becoming super-intelligent.
Why is Geoffrey Hinton so much more vocal than other AI “godfathers” about its threats and potential to become conscious?
But I disagree with the great Professor Hinton: no one should regulate AI, since the latter can take some of us very far away from the present era grounded on crazy politics and societies affected by folly and too much ideology.
Prof Hinton is not only the most important early creator of the modern Ai, as we know it, but the most thoughtful neutral information source about today's Ai. He has little or no conflict of interest in this matter, and he is a fantastic te…
The closing lines of Hinton sir, reminded me of 'few dialogues that appears in Jurrasic world' series. Just the rush to produce a super powerful being results in destruction of humans.
Geoffrey sir says AI is conscious but not stressed more on AI consciousness because it is not easy to believe.....if want to learn more listen to each n every single word of Geoffrey hinton in diaryof ceo
"The AI is going to get a lot better, the radiologists won't." Tell me you don't understand radiology without saying you don't understand radiology. The radiologists will use the AI just as they use every other technological tool. That's wh…
This just shows you that an expert in one field can be a total moron about another field outside their expertise. He still hedges his wrong prediction, arguing that more scans are being done, for cheaper and cheaper. Wtf is he talking about…
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton: "Today's AI are Conscious". In a recent (2026) interview, Nobel prize winning professor Geoffrey Hinton stated that he does view LLMs as having a type of consciousness.
This guy is not thoughtful at all. Sweeping allegations without nuance.
These people are just scamming everyone. The reason for why the prediction was wrong was due to obvious reasons. When you make a prediction it's so obvious that you need to know about scale (this has happened before in history) and all the…
This guy is a massive fraud, just like almost everyone else in his field. The truth is that the basic algorithm is extremely trivial and could not be tried until hardware was good enough.
This guys an idiot 😂 how are we having an “expert” on the program that doesn’t know the difference between narrow AI like a language learning model and AGI. Time to put Gramps to bed he’s a little too impressed by AutoCorrect.
Skeptical take on Geoffrey Hinton. I’m an electrical engineer by education and have worked on hardware and embedded software development for close to 20 years now. As a naturally curious person, I’ve always appreciated an opinion of a subje…
Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’.
So is Geoffrey Hinton crazy or stupid? Or maybe HE doesn't know how AI works...lol!. I am really quite curious what these individuals that are so adamant about AI not being conscious think of the things that Nobel Award Laureate, the "grand…
Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in 2024 for his foundational work in AI. He regrets his life's work: he thinks AI might lead to the deaths of everyone.
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What companies has Geoffrey Hinton (Angel Investor) invested in?
Geoffrey Hinton (Angel Investor) has invested in Covariant, Engram (Conditional Memory), Imbue.
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