Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
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Videos Mentioning Geoffrey Hinton

Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them, But We’ve Already Lost Control! Geoffrey Hinton
The Diary Of A CEO
Pioneer in AI whose work helped shape neural networks and the brain-based approach; discussed leaving Google to speak freely and to warn about AI risks.

Ep. 217: Using Slow Productivity To Do The Best Work Anywhere
Cal Newport
A main figure in the rise of deep learning artificial intelligence, whose story is told in 'Genius Makers.'

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101
Lex Fridman
AI researcher who, with Sinofsky, found a solution in restricted Boltzmann machines to make them trainable.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang GTC 2026 Full Keynote
Yahoo Finance
Considered the 'Godfather of AI' and a pioneer in deep learning, whose work was enabled by GeForce GPUs.

Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144
Lex Fridman
Co-author of the Boltzmann machine paper, a pioneer in neural networks.

Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI Meta-Learning and Self-Play | MIT Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Lex Fridman
A key figure in deep learning, previously associated with Ilya Sutskever in Toronto and Stanford.

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25
Lex Fridman
A leading figure in deep learning, mentioned as one of the leaders in machine learning who believes in exploring new approaches, such as his work on 'capsules'.

Steve Jurvetson Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
A leading researcher in AI and deep learning, mentioned as one of the key figures from the 'Canada group' contributing to deep learning R&D.

Regulating Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio and Scott Wiener(Episode #379)
Sam Harris
Pioneering AI researcher, described as having an 'epiphany' about AI risks after previously not expressing strong concerns.

Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299
Lex Fridman
Academician who was part of inventing Deep Learning.

MIT 6.S094: Recurrent Neural Networks for Steering Through Time
Lex Fridman
A prominent researcher in artificial intelligence and deep learning, cited for his humorous take on 'Stochastic Graduate Student Descent'.

MIT 6.S094: Introduction to Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
A prominent figure in deep learning, cited for examples of text generation where an AI completes sentences with humorous or thought-provoking phrases.

Deep Learning for Computer Vision (Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI)
Lex Fridman
A pioneer in deep learning, co-author of the influential 2012 paper that demonstrated the effectiveness of scaled-up convolutional neural networks on ImageNet and developer of dropout.

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (Richard Socher, Salesforce)
Lex Fridman
Mentioned in relation to the GloVe model, though the transcript incorrectly attributes it to Geoffrey Pennington. Geoffrey Hinton is a prominent figure in deep learning, particularly known for his work on neural networks.