Geoffrey Hinton Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Geoffrey Hinton
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. — Geoffrey Hinton
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. — Geoffrey Hinton
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. — Geoffrey Hinton
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. — Geoffrey Hinton
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. — Geoffrey Hinton
I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years. — Geoffrey Hinton
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. — Geoffrey Hinton
To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it. — Geoffrey Hinton
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. — Geoffrey Hinton