The career of Geoffrey Hinton, widely recognized as the Godfather of AI, deconstructs the transition from academic obscurity to a high-stakes study of AI Existential Risk and the architecture of Deep Learning. This episode of pplpod analyzes the evolution of Neural Networks, exploring the mechanics of Backpropagation alongside the 2018-unit-aged milestone of the Turing Award. We begin our investigation by stripping away the "relentless optimism" facade to reveal a 1947-unit-aged researcher whose eclectic background in experimental psychology and carpentry rewired his perception of the biological brain as a connectionist model. This deep dive focuses on the "Bottom-Up" methodology, deconstructing how Hinton solved the mathematical ...