# Geoffrey Hinton

**Source:** https://www.startuphub.ai/people/geoffrey-hinton
**Profile type:** Person

## About

Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the “godfathers of artificial intelligence.” He is internationally renowned for his foundational contributions to deep learning and neural networks, which laid the foundations for many of the modern AI systems used today. He was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.

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- **Title:** Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor at Vector Institute

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