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# Geoffrey Hinton

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Geoffrey Everest Hinton, [CC](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/order-of-canada), FRS, [FRSC](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/royal-society-of-canada), computer scientist, cognitive psychologist
(born 6 December 1947, in Wimbledon, London, England). Geoffrey Hinton’s work on [artificial intelligence](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/artificial-intelligence) (AI) has earned him the nickname “the Godfather of AI.” He
shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in artificial neural networks. ( _See also_ [Nobel Prizes and Canada](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nobel-prizes).)

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Co-laureate of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Canadian-British computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Hinton speaks during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on December 7, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

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