Geoffrey Everest Hinton CC FRS FRSC是一位英裔加拿大认知心理学家和计算机科学家，最著名的工作是人工神经网络。自2013年以来，他一直在谷歌和多伦多大学工作。2017年，他共同创立并成为多伦多病媒研究所的首席科学顾问。
I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.'
被称为“教父”让我有点尴尬
Now that neural nets work, industry and government have started calling neural nets AI. And the people in AI who spent all their life mocking neural nets and saying they'd never do anything are now happy to call them AI and try and get some of the money.
既然神经网络起作用了，工业界和政府已经开始称神经网络为人工智能。而那些在人工智能中度过一生嘲笑神经网络并说他们永远不会做任何事情的人，现在很高兴称他们为人工智能，并试图得到一些钱。
I had a stormy graduate career, where every week we would have a shouting match. I kept doing deals where I would say, 'Okay, let me do neural nets for another six months, and I will prove to you they work.' At the end of the six months, I would say, 'Yeah, but I am almost there. Give me another six months.'
我的研究生生涯风雨飘摇，每周都有一场激烈的比赛。我一直在做交易，我会说，‘好吧，让我再做六个月的神经网络，我会向你证明它们是有效的。’在这六个月结束时，我会说，‘是的，但我已经快成功了。再给我六个月。”