McDonald Institute

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Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is quickly becoming an integral part of our digital world. Whether it&rsquo;s as simple as summarizing search results or as complex as generating photorealistic images and videos, there is no question that these tools are significantly impacting our digital experiences. Prof. Geoffrey Hinton (UofT) has had a long and productive career in machine learning and AI. In 1986, Hinton co-authored a highly cited paper on multi-layer neural networks, and he is considered a leading figure in machine learning, to the point of being referred to as one of the &ldquo;Godfathers of Deep Learning.&rdquo; In 2024, Hinton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with John Hopfield for &ldquo;foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.&rdquo; We are thrilled to host Prof. Hinton in Kingston for the 2026 George and Maureen Ewan Lecture, a lecture series made possible by a generous endowment from the late Ewans, of which George was one of the founding members of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. In his talk, Prof. Hinton will explain the various forms of AI, their potentials, and their limits. He will discuss the advancements and integrations of AI into our digital world and how we should anticipate potential intellectual and security risks.

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Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is quickly becoming an integral part of our digital world. Whether it’s as simple as summarizing search results or as complex as generating photorealistic images and videos, there is no question that these tools are significantly impacting our digital experiences. Prof. Geoffrey Hinton (UofT) has had a long and productive career in machine learning and AI. In 1986, Hinton co-authored a highly cited paper on multi-layer neural networks, and he is considered a leading figure in machine learning, to the point of being referred to as one of the “Godfathers of Deep Learning.” In 2024, Hinton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with John Hopfield for “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” We are thrilled to host Prof. Hinton in Kingston for the 2026 George and Maureen Ewan Lecture, a lecture series made possible by a generous endowment from the late Ewans, of which George was one of the founding members of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. In his talk, Prof. Hinton will explain the various forms of AI, their potentials, and their limits. He will discuss the advancements and integrations of AI into our digital world and how we should anticipate potential intellectual and security risks.

McDonald Institute

Ewan Lecture: Living with Alien Beings -- How we can coexist with superintelligent AI

390 King St W

General Admission

Free