Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, made a leap in the 1980s — leaving a well-funded position at Carnegie Mellon University to devote himself to a poorly studied area of machine learning research at the University of Toronto. Four decades later, Hinton and his research paved the way for the functioning of modern AI systems, while transforming the Canadian urban landscape. Silicon Valley is the pulsating heart of the techno…
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Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, made a leap in the 1980s — leaving a well-funded position at Carnegie Mellon University to devote himself to a poorly studied area of machine learning research at the University of Toronto. Four decades later, Hinton and his research paved the way for the functioning of modern AI systems, while transforming the Canadian urban landscape. Silicon Valley is the pulsating heart of the techno…