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DescriptionGeoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who received the 2018 Turing Award for his foundational work on deep learning. Often called the "Godfather of AI," he developed many of the techniques that enabled the current AI revolution, including the backpropagation algorithm, B…
Source URLwww.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/
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descriptionGeoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who received the 2018 Turing Award for his foundational work on deep learning. Often called the "Godfather of AI," he developed many of the techniques that enabled the current AI revolution, including the backpropagation algorithm, B
websitewww.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/
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