The Godfather in Conversation: Why Geoffrey Hinton is worried about the future of AI
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Published 2023-06-22
Why does he believe digital intelligence could hold an advantage over biological intelligence? How did he suddenly arrive at this conclusion after a lifetime of work in the field? Most importantly, what – if anything – can be done to safeguard the future of humanity? The University of Toronto University Professor Emeritus addresses these questions and more in The Godfather in Conversation.
00:00 Intro
01:03 Digital intelligence
02:27 Biological intelligence
03:47 Why worry?
04:39 Machine learning
07:07 Neural Nets
13:22 Neural nets and language
17:18 Challenges
18:49 Breakthrough moment
20:41 AlexNet
24:35 Pace of Innovation
26:04 ChatGPT
27:46 Public Reaction
29:49 Benefits for society
33:25 Pace of innovation
35:48 Sudden realization
37:13 Role of government
40:08 Big tech
42:32 Advice to researchers
43:50 Understanding risk
45:20 What’s next?
All Comments (21)
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This man is a voice of reason, honesty, and inspiration in a world of chaos. I am grateful that this man existed and was able to materialize his gifts, even if they may destroy us all.
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Hinton explain things clearly and is honest with himself!
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“If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.” Richard Feynman . Hinton in this video does this quote justice !
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These explanations of neural nets are really brilliant but his humility and honesty really really stood out here too. Want to consume me a load more of Hinton's work
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Such a talk! He explained neural networks and back propagation, etc amazingly! He is right.
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This is a must watch for anyone who wants peace, prosperity, liberty and the striving to be beautiful as a global community.
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This was a very insightful interview. Not only were the questions well-considered but Geoffrey Hinton answered them in a sympathetic and respectful way. Thank you for arranging this interview and for uploading it.
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There's a lot of overlap with previous interviews, but that's no problem at all. I can listen to Jeffrey explain things many more times. And, he covers a bit of me ground here thanks to God questions. Thanks very much for this!
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I just want to say I love the video editing here. It's both subtle, and incredibly creative. Video editing is one of those places where if you do well, nobody notices, so I just want to give a big shoutout to whoever did that!
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27:21 "The idea that it's just sort of predicting the next word and using statistics - there's a sense in which that's true, but it's not the sense of statistics that most people understand. It, from the data, it figures out how to extract the meaning of the sentence and it uses the meaning of the sentence to predict the next word. It really does understand and that's quite shocking." 29:41 "the idea that it's just predicting the next word doesn't make any sense in that context. It had to understand what was going on"
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When will the video of the Talk and Q&A “Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?” be published? Very interesting elaborate article in the New Yorker, very special.
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Fantastic interview about the potential dangers of AGI suitable for the non-specialist
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clear,concise, candid
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That story about the programmer writing a new language to test GPTs understanding gave me goosebumps. I would live to hear more about that. Maybe the most compelling story ive heard, if true, i would be convinced it really does understand
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Geoffrey Hinton doesn't use hidden layers, the layers hide when he approaches.
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Thank you for uploading this and sharing it with us!
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A beautiful and sincere man❤
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The very idea that AGI can ever be controlled is itself dangerous. The possibility of anyone finding themselves in the position of saying, "we have this under control", means it will absolutely guaranteed escape containment. The human record for evaluating these risks, and coming up way too optimistic, is vast and compelling.
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John Reese: "How do you know all this about The Machine?" Harold Finch: "Because I built it."
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He was originally educated at Cambridge England
