Only a handful scientists on earth ever earn the distinction of winning a Nobel Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime achievement forever etched into the annals of history. This made it that much more extraordinary that Geoffrey Hinton spoke for barely more than a minute before trashing the CEO of OpenAI during an ad hoc press briefing convened in honor of his award.

Nobel Prize winner and physicist gives former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever a hat tip for his contributions to developing safe AI and firing Sam Altman for his missteps, including focusing on generating focus and abandoning the firm's founding mission.

Geoffrey Hinton accepted a Nobel Prize this week, recognizing the foundational work on artificial neural networks that earned him the nickname "godfather

Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel Prize winner, expressed pride in former student Ilya Sutskever's role in Sam Altman's dismissal from OpenAI.

"So OpenAI was set up with a big emphasis on safety. Its primary objective was to develop artificial general intelligence and ensure that it was safe," Hinton said. "And over time, it turned out that Sam Altman was much less concerned with safety than with profits.

Nobel Prize winners are often deeply appreciative of their students for having aided their research and contributed to their academic successes, but Geoffrey Hinton, the latest winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics,

Geoffrey Hinton who on Tuesday won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics thanked his students in a press conference and said he is particularly proud of one of his students for firing Sam Altman.