The project was helmed by the eponymous Alex Krizhevsky and his collaborator, Ilya Sutskever, both of whom were smart but young researchers still building their reputations. The third name, however, caught my attention instantly: Geoffrey E. Hinton. The same Hinton who’d made his name as an early machine learning pioneer with the development of backpropagation in the mid-1980s, the breakthrough method that made it possible to reliably train large neural networks for the first time. The Hinton who had mentored Yann LeCun when he was still a student in his lab. The Hinton who, like his protégé,
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