The AI superstars at Google, Facebook, Apple—they all studied under this guyMr. Robot Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years hammering away at an idea most other scientists dismissed as nonsense. Then, one day in 2012, he was proven right. Canada’s most influential thinker in the field of artificial intelligence is far too classy to say I told you so By Katrina Onstad | Photograph by Daniel Ehrenworth | January 29, 2018 For more than 30 years, Geoffrey Hinton hovered at the edges
