Geoffrey Hinton gave half his Nobel prize to a group helping First Nations with water issues – Stony Plain Reporter
Oct 30, 2024
He’d planned to help a group in Africa. ‘And then my partner said: Well, what about Canada?’
Geoffrey Hinton, whose share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics amounts to about $700,000 Canadian, has donated half of his prize money to Water First, an organization that works with First Nations communities to solve their water crises.
Hinton revealed the news during a press conference following the Hinton Lectures, a two-part presentation on the future of artificial intelligence, in Toronto this week.
Although the moderator asked press to steer clear of questions about his Nobel Prize win this year, someone apologized for “breaking the rule” and asked him if he had any plans for the money.
