This city is one of the world’s most important AI hubs. It’s not where you’d expect

By Clare Duffy, CNN Toronto, Canada (CNN) — Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, took a leap in the 1980s — leaving a well-funded post at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a little-studied area of machine learning research at the University of Toronto. Four decades later, Hinton and that research paved the way for