Canadian scientist Hinton. (Photo/Dazhi/Associated Press, the same below)
[周刊王CTWANT] The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced on the 8th. The British-Canadian scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI”, and the physicist John J. Hopfield won the prize. Hinton was born in a family of scholars. , suffered great pressure in childhood, and worked as a carpenter after graduating from college.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, 76-year-old Hinton said that he was so surprised when he learned that he had won the award. He was connected to a press conference at a low-cost hotel in California, USA. Hinton said that the hotel’s Internet and phone quality were unstable, and he was originally going to have an MRI scan, but now he has to cancel it.
Hinton said that with the advancement of artificial neural networks like the industrial revolution, the intelligence of machine learning (Machine Learning) will be higher than that of humans and will have a huge impact. For example, he often uses Chat GPT 4, but he does not completely believe in it because it sometimes causes Illusion, artificial intelligence may lead to crises in the future because people have no experience in dealing with things smarter than themselves.
Hinton shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with physicist Hopfield.
Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who has made novel discoveries in the fields of backpropagation algorithm, Boltzmann machine, distributed representation, etc. He is also the author of Encyclopedia Britannica One of the characters in “The Complete Book”.
Hinton was born in 1947 and grew up in Bristol, England. He was born into a family of scholars. His maternal grandparents were logicians and mathematicians. The “Boolean logic” they studied also paved the way for modern computer computing in the future; Hinton’s great-great-grandfather was a famous doctor in the 19th century, his great-grandfather was also a mathematician, and his great-uncle invented the climbing frame (jungle gym) commonly seen in parks today.
Not only that, Hinton’s father, Howard Everest Hinton, is also an entomologist. Hinton admitted that he had felt tremendous “academic” pressure since he was a child and knew that he could not live up to the family’s honor. Hinton studied physiology, philosophy, and physics at Cambridge University, and received a degree in experimental psychology in 1970. After graduation, he worked as a carpenter, and then continued to study for a doctorate in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.
In 2012, Hinton developed the 8-layer neural network AlexNet with his students and founded the company DDNresearch. It was acquired by Google in 2013. Hinton also became the vice president of Google and became famous ever since. However, when AI was hot in 2023, Hinton decided to resign because he was worried about the threat of AI. Before resigning, a reporter asked him, “How likely is it that artificial intelligence will wipe out mankind?” Hinton replied that this is not unimaginable. His many downplayed remarks have also made him one of the representatives of AI doomsday theory.
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