Geoffrey Everest Hinton CC FRS FRSC[12] (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.

Hinton received the 2018 Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing", together with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, for their work on deep learning.They are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of Deep Learning".