British - Psychologist | December 6, 1947 -
I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.'
Geoffrey Hinton
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I have a Reagan-like ability to believe in my own data.
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I am betting on Google's team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.
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We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.
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My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.
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The question is, can we make neural networks that are 1,000 times bigger? And how can we do that with existing computation?
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Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.
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Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits.
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The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does. Each time there's a new revelation from Snowden, you realise the extent of it.
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I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I'd be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots.
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All you need is lots and lots of data and lots of information about what the right answer is, and you'll be able to train a big neural net to do what you want.
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Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
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