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Three pioneers in artificial intelligence win Turing Award
Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, May 25, 2017. Hinton, who is now at Google, and two other researchers have won the Turing Award, perhaps the most prestigious award in computing, for their work on neural networks. NYT PHOTO
SAN FRANCISCO — In 2004, Geoffrey Hinton doubled down on his pursuit of a technological idea called a neural network.
It was a way for machines to see the world around them, recognize sounds and even understand natural language. But scientists had spent more than 50 years working on the concept of neural networks, and machines couldn’t really do any of that.
