“Machines will be smarter than people at almost everything”

Awarded with the 9th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies, computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton explains how his research on artificial neural networks has enabled computers to learn from experience without needing pre-programmed knowledge. He highlights key advances such as improved machine translation, AI-assisted medical diagnostics, drug design, and autonomous driving—which, he assures, will be far safer than current methods. Hinton emphasizes that the real challenge is not technological but social, as the wealth generated by these innovations must be distributed fairly, and he warns of the urgent need to regulate the use of autonomous weapons.

The 9th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category went to artificial intelligence researcher Geoffrey Hinton, for his pio

Awarded with the 9th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies, computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton explains how his research on artificial neural networks has enabled computers to learn from experience without needing pre-programmed knowledge. He highlights key advances such as improved machine translation, AI-assisted medical diagnostics, drug design, and autonomous driving—which, he assures, will be far safer than current methods. Hinton emphasizes that the real challenge is not technological but social, as the wealth generated by these innovations must be distributed fairly, and he warns of the urgent need to regulate the use of autonomous weapons.

The 9th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category went to artificial intelligence researcher Geoffrey Hinton, for his pioneering and highly influential work on machine learning, leading advances in the area of neural networks and deep learning that underlie the most successful algorithms in image recognition and natural language processing.