The AI superstars at Google, Facebook, Apple—they all studied under this guy

His name is Geoffrey Hinton, but he’s better known as the godfather of artificial intelligence

Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years hammering away at an idea most other scientists dismissed as nonsense. Then, one day in 2012, he was proven right. Canada’s most influential thinker in the field of artificial intelligence is far too classy to say I told you so...