Geoffrey Hinton's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". The birth-card coordinate for December 6 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2024 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2024 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Geoffrey Hinton's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Geoffrey Hinton. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Geoffrey Hinton in the public record

He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google Brain and the University of Toronto before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the many risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto. With David Rumelhart and Ronald J. Williams, Hinton co-authored a highly cited paper published in 1986 that popularised the backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural networks, although they were not the first to propose the approach. Hinton is viewed as a leading figure in the deep learning community. The image-recognition neural network AlexNet, designed in collaboration with his students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, won the ImageNet challenge in 2012 and was a breakthrough in computer vision. Hinton received the 2018 Turing Award, together with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, for their work on deep learning.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Geoffrey Hinton (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Queen of Clubs

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Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI".

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Also on the record

1. They are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of Deep Learning".
2. He was also awarded, along with John Hopfield, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks".
3. In May 2023, Hinton announced his resignation from Google to be able to "freely speak out about the risks of AI".
4. He has voiced concerns about deliberate misuse by malicious actors, technological unemployment, and existential risk from artificial general intelligence.

Other laureates with this card

• Adolf Butenandt — 1939 Chemistry
• Ahmed Zewail — 1999 Chemistry
• Akira Suzuki — 2010 Chemistry
• Alphonse Laveran — 1907 Physiology or Medicine
• Anton Zeilinger — 2022 Physics
• Carolyn Bertozzi — 2022 Chemistry
• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• 32 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Geoffrey Hinton's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. December 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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Where do Geoffrey Hinton's dates come from?

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