Profile of Geoffrey Hinton, a neural net pioneer at the University of Toronto, Google, and now the Vector Institute, which aims to stop Toronto's AI brain drain (Katrina Onstad/Toronto Life)

Katrina Onstad / Toronto Life:
Profile of Geoffrey Hinton, a neural net pioneer at the University of Toronto, Google, and now the Vector Institute, which aims to stop Toronto's AI brain drain  —  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.

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