Hinton

American  

[hin-tn, -tuhn] / ˈhɪn tn, -tən /

noun

1. Christopher, Baron Hinton of Bankside, 1901–1983, British nuclear engineer.

2. William Augustus, 1883–1959, U.S. medical researcher and educator.

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Example Sentences

Unlike his fellow AI godfathers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, Prof LeCun has cast doubt on the idea AI might pose an existential threat to humanity.

From BBC

He worked in Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton’s AI lab in Toronto before Hinton became an AI legend, and spent much of his early professional career in New Jersey at Bell Labs, the institute famous for the sheer number of inventions that came out of it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Turing Award, the highest prize in computer science, along with Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.

From The Wall Street Journal

On Wednesday, Jensen Huang received the the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering alongside six other foundational figures in AI, including Professors Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, who have warned that the technology poses an existential threat to humanity.

From BBC

Dr Hinton, Prof Bengio and Yann LeCun, currently Chief AI Scientist at Meta have widely been recognised as the "Godfathers of AI" since they were jointly awarded the 2018 Turing Award.

From BBC