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Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Everest Hinton FRS FRSC (born 6 December 1947) is a British cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. As of 2015[update] he divides his time working for Google and University of Toronto.

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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.

Evil People, People, Politics, Technology, Things, Used

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

Five, Say, Say Anything, Think, Thinking, Years

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.

Brain, Connections, Number, Numbers, Stored

As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.

Develop, Head, Like, Silly, Technology, Would Be

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

Doe, Everyone, Fourteen, Space, Visualize

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

Crazy, Evidence, Long, Running, Science

I think people need to understand that deep learning is making a lot of things, behind-the-scenes, much better. Deep learning is already working in Google search, and in image search; it allows you to image search a term like "hug. "

Google, Hug, Like, People, Thinking, Working

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

Equivalent, Intellectual, Should, Think, Thinking

In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well.

1990S, Optimistic, People, Use

You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.

Good, Ideas, Looks, Past, Predictions, Thomas

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

Course, Courses, Digging, Misuse, Save