Hinton is considered one of three leading pioneer 'Godfathers' of AI, alongside Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, after the three won the Turing Award for their work in thge field.

A year later, along with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, Hinton received the prestigious Turing Award, often called the "Nobel Prize of Computing," for their groundbreaking work in deep learning.

Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded the Nobel ... However, one of the trio, Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, has played down the existential threat ...

New York University’s Yann LeCun has been selected as a winner of ... the University of Toronto’s Geoffrey Hinton, and Princeton University’s John Hopfield—were cited by the foundation ...

Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield, Yann LeCun, Jensen Huang, Bill Dally, and Fei-Fei Li have been pivotal in advancing the three core pillars of Modern Machine Learning, namely advanced algorithms, ...