Geoffrey Hinton
Neural-network researcher, AlexNet coauthor and DNNresearch co-founder.
Wikipedia-confirmed identity. Matched to Wikidata Q92894 ↗ with a Wikipedia article ↗. Checked 2026-10-02.
Neural-network researcher, AlexNet coauthor and DNNresearch co-founder.
Organizations and connections
Affiliations retain their dates and sources. Roles may be historical; a missing end date does not establish a current role. Machine classifications need review; a co-mention alone does not establish a relationship.
Graduate researcher supervised by Hinton, documented in the acquisition announcement
- Google acquires the Toronto founders’ neural-networks company (2013) ↗University of Toronto
Co-founded the Toronto neural-network company
- Google acquires the Toronto founders’ neural-networks company (2013) ↗University of Toronto
Joined Google following the DNNresearch acquisition
- Google acquires the Toronto founders’ neural-networks company (2013) ↗University of Toronto
Assistant then associate professor
- Geoffrey Hinton curriculum vitae (June 2023) ↗Geoffrey Hinton / University of Toronto
Professor, first Toronto appointment
- Geoffrey Hinton curriculum vitae (June 2023) ↗Geoffrey Hinton / University of Toronto
Returned as professor before emeritus appointment
- Geoffrey Hinton curriculum vitae (June 2023) ↗Geoffrey Hinton / University of Toronto
Named Hinton as his doctoral advisor in the 2013 PhD thesis
- Ilya Sutskever: 2013 PhD thesis and acknowledgement of advisor Geoffrey Hinton ↗Ilya Sutskever / University of Toronto
Educated at
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q92894$77323d82-4af2-30b1-6b3f-f3453d910b001 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92894$780b69bd-4ab7-d5a3-2a64-00d52fefd0291 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92894$DD704E10-C08E-4F42-BAE5-F6B0EB857AAE1 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92894$9081FF7F-89B6-4779-86C0-25AE6DC40C141 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92894$19d103ac-49ce-1b97-806b-caa593652ab62 reference records retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92894$9823D979-923D-466B-8647-9300B82B9A141 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92894$b67216c3-495c-ba80-6b0d-60b7b3ff28881 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92894$80179ABF-1DC0-4880-B15D-48C96DC03A05No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Educated at
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q92894$8BAAE736-9358-49AB-B70D-D77022031F0B1 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92894$a2a15238-4363-1a32-1789-a610ca753406No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement q92894$716070B7-F3E9-48B7-9F53-1AACF328154ENo external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92894$630fba5a-41f5-04ce-4d41-89623be15863No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92894$0931D289-46F0-48EE-BE2A-FD9E6E0C01111 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Geoffrey Hinton ↗Wikidata
Postdoctoral researcher in Hinton’s group
- Geoffrey Hinton: former postdoctoral researchers ↗Geoffrey Hinton / University of Toronto
- Yann LeCun: research history and Bell Labs appointment ↗Yann LeCun
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- "Superintelligence" 10 years later ↗www.humanityredefined.com · 2024-07-04
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- How to Get a Job in Deep Learning ↗blog.deepgram.com · 2016-09-22
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- How OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Was Fired by Rival Board Members ↗sfstandard.com · 2023-11-18
- Viv, Built by Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5M for an AI Technology ↗techcrunch.com · 2015-02-21
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Why we stopped using the mathematics that works ↗gfrm.in · 2026-03-09
- Face detection – An overview and comparison of different solutions ↗www.liip.ch · 2018-08-16
- Google acquires neural network startup that may help it hone speech recognition ↗www.engadget.com · 2013-03-13
- Neural Translation of Musical Style ↗imanmalik.com · 2017-06-09
- The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise ↗www.understandingai.org · 2024-11-06
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- O3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI ↗garymarcus.substack.com · 2025-07-15
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over ↗medium.com · 2015-12-11
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- How OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Was Fired by Rival Board Members ↗sfstandard.com · 2023-11-18
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- The Google employees who created transformers ↗www.wired.com · 2024-03-20
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative' ↗www.zdnet.com · 2023-01-26
- O3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI ↗garymarcus.substack.com · 2025-07-15
- Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization ↗thebulletin.org · 2023-10-18
- Who is attending Sunak’s AI safety summit – and what will they discuss? ↗www.theguardian.com · 2023-10-30
- ‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it ↗www.theguardian.com · 2023-06-07
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Making Things Think – AI Book ↗www.holloway.com · 2022-07-07
- How OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Was Fired by Rival Board Members ↗sfstandard.com · 2023-11-18
- Viv, Built by Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5M for an AI Technology ↗techcrunch.com · 2015-02-21
- How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over ↗medium.com · 2015-12-11
- ‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it ↗www.theguardian.com · 2023-06-07
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- The Concept of ‘Cat Face’ ↗www.lrb.co.uk · 2016-08-24
- Viv, Built by Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5M for an AI Technology ↗techcrunch.com · 2015-02-21
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- My Education in Machine Learning via Cousera, A Review So Far ↗richardminerich.com · 2012-12-03
- Making Things Think – AI Book ↗www.holloway.com · 2022-07-07
- Deep learning papers reading roadmap ↗github.com · 2016-10-21
- Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning ↗www.wired.com · 2018-02-09
- Why we stopped using the mathematics that works ↗gfrm.in · 2026-03-09
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Critique of 2018 Turing Award for Drs. Bengio and Hinton and LeCun ↗people.idsia.ch · 2021-04-14
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- How a Toronto professor’s research revolutionized artificial intelligence ↗www.thestar.com · 2015-04-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- OpenAI can stop pretending ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2025-06-01
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Humanity at risk from AI ‘race to the bottom’, says tech expert ↗www.theguardian.com · 2023-10-26
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? ↗www.thenation.com · 2026-04-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Breaking the spell of vibe coding ↗www.fast.ai · 2026-02-13
- Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds? ↗garymarcus.substack.com · 2022-09-15
- Does Sam Altman know what he’s creating? ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2023-07-24
- Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning ↗www.wired.com · 2018-02-09
- Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern ↗www.theverge.com · 2023-05-01
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Making Things Think – AI Book ↗www.holloway.com · 2022-07-07
- The Concept of ‘Cat Face’ ↗www.lrb.co.uk · 2016-08-24
- Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers ↗www.theguardian.com · 2023-10-24
- ‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it ↗www.theguardian.com · 2023-06-07
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Viv, Built by Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5M for an AI Technology ↗techcrunch.com · 2015-02-21
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete ↗www.newsweek.com · 2025-04-02
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Making Things Think – AI Book ↗www.holloway.com · 2022-07-07
- Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? ↗www.thenation.com · 2026-04-17
- The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world ↗www.technologyreview.com · 2020-02-17
- Silicon Valley's worldview is not just an ideology; it's a personality disorder ↗crookedtimber.org · 2023-11-15
- How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over ↗medium.com · 2015-12-11
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation ↗www.theguardian.com · 2023-05-02
Loading archive signals…
From the archive
WIKIDATA-CONFIRMED IDENTITY Wikipedia: Geoffrey Hinton ↗
244 plausible article mentions · 84 quarantined matches. The identity match does not verify these article associations or establish relationships.
- hn · 2023-05-01Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead ↗
- hn · 2024-10-08Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf] ↗
- hn · 2026-01-22GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers ↗