Geoffrey Hinton, the prominent data scientist known as the “Godfather of artificial intelligence,” is backing Elon Musk in his legal attempt to block OpenAI from switching to a for-profit company.

Geoffrey Hinton, the oft-named godfather of AI, has gotten into a row with Elon Musk on the billionaire’s own social media platform over his Fellowship at the prestigious Royal Society’s ...

Geoffrey Hinton is one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, critical in the development of deep learning, backpropagation and much more. In 2024 he was awarded the Nobel prize in ...