University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton has been recognized in the top spot on this year's list of the 50 most influential Torontonians by Toronto Life magazine. (Photo: Polina Teif)
, a emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto and the 鈥済odfather of AI鈥, has been ranked .
After Hinton announced he was leaving his job at Google to , the magazine reports he received more than 1,000 interview requests about the future of the tech he helped create.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invited Hinton to dinner to discuss what Canada should do about AI and he fielded calls from the White House and 10 Downing Street.
鈥淲hen he speaks, everyone pays attention,鈥 writes Toronto Life, .
Hinton was one of more than 15 U of T alumni, faculty and community members that made the magazine鈥檚 annual list of movers and shakers.
Others include: Tiff Macklem, governor of the Bank of Canada and former dean of the Rotman School of Management; Ilya Sutskever, a 海角视频 of Computer Science alumnus and co-founder of OpenAI; Gregg Lintern, retiring Toronto chief planner and U of T alumnus; Anita Anand, Treasury Board president and a professor in the Faculty of Law (on leave); James Maskalyk, an emergency doctor at St. Michael鈥檚 Hospital, Unity Health, and a faculty member in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine; , CEO of self-driving truck startup Waabi and a professor of computer science; Leigh Chapman, Canada鈥檚 chief nursing officer and U of T alumna; Sam Ibrahim, an entrepreneur and philanthropist ; and Carlo Fidani, a businessman, philanthropist and who has supported the Mississauga Academy of Medicine at U of T Mississauga and whose Orlando Corporation has made a major investment in the .
Members of the U of T community were also featured in , including 海角视频 of Computer Science alumna Akanksha Shelat, published in the same issue.
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