This Canadian Genius Created Modern AI

For nearly 40 years, Geoff Hinton has been trying to get computers to learn like people do, a quest almost everyone thought was crazy or at least hopeless - right up until the moment it revolutionized the field. In this Hello World video, Bloomberg Businessweek's Ashlee Vance meets the Godfather of AI.

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[Vens]

1:36 He mastered Python from quite an early age.

[MuhamedRetkoceri]

It is interesting how his great-great-grandfather George Boole was ahead of his time when his work about Boolean Algebra was build on a basis of a model of how the mind works, which for him was logic. After around 150 years his direct descendant Geoffrey Hinton pursues the goal to understand how the mind works and then goes ahead of his time by revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence. The world did indeed catch up once, but he is still ahead as he keeps pushing the field with new work like Capsule Neural Networks.

[windandsea]

I’m happy he’s alive to know he was right all along and computers caught up to his vision.

[ahmaddwi]

Me: "my leg hurts, I've been standing for 2 hours"
G. Hinton: "Excuse me?"

[MsSuyash]

He definitely deserved the Turing Award for his invaluable contribution to the field of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science..

[robertvermeer]

A true scientist! Seeing the empirical evidence in his surroundings thus realizing it's possible. These are the people we don't have enough of and truly inspire me.

[alexdimitrov]

Wow, this video about the Canadian genius who created modern AI has aged incredibly well! Even four years later, the impact and significance of Geoffrey Hinton's work in machine learning and neural networks are still being felt and expanded upon by researchers and developers around the world. It's amazing to think how much progress has been made in AI and deep learning since this video was published, and Hinton's contributions continue to be at the forefront of these advancements. Thank you for sharing this insightful and informative video!

- ChatGPT

[TheIngPin]

wow he worked for 20 years before the mainstream media recognized the value of his work

[Wertdante]

"Limited by technology of my time "
- Howard Stark

[morenofranco]

What an amazing person. Not just before his time, but still being alive when the Dream is Realized.

[emenikeanigbogu]

not only he invented AI, he was the pioneer of standing desks.

[Lucas-zdhl]

"Sometimes it takes years to become an overnight success"

I'm From Canada toronto, everyone from canada 🍁 thumbs up, feeling proud

[MindDataAI]

I had an honour to hear his talk once. Absolutely genius

[lewissunflower]

Geoff is the great-great-grandson of George Boole (where "boolean" logic comes from, whose mathematical work is credited with laying the foundation of computers), quite fitting that Hinton is influential & pushing forward a field whose ancestor is fundamental to.

[KenBowd]

With respect.
Citing Dr. Hinton as a Canadian pioneer in AI is likely a fair statement but, such a statement ignores those who came before him.
Donald Olding Hebb was born on July 22, 1904 in Chester, Nova Scotia where he lived until his family moved to Dartmouth when he was 16. The term AI was not in use when Dr Hebb became interested in Neural Nets but it is undeniable, his work is foundational to Dr Hinton’s.
The source for where Dr. Hebb's foundational thinking was, is difficult to know unless he wrote it down somewhere. Personally my reading suggests statistics. As a human mind scans and evaluates any particular body of data and finds some truth, they have mimicked Hebb's net.
Personally I feel the term AI is a misnomer. If something is intelligent, it is intelligent, not artificial!
Again, with respect to Dr. Hinton real talent, Canada can be proud of;
Ken Bowd Layperson Canada.
PS: my logic here is the product of a 1970’s era tv show called “Connections” by James Burke. (Google “connections PBS”).

[michaelgismondi]

I used to attend lectures in the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science department in 1983-1985. OMG. Jeff shook up the original (symbolic) AI gurus so fear and hate was palatable. Jeff never seemed to enjoy being hated, but he behaved like he was fearless because he was convinced he was right about neural nets and statistics/math. Always with an amazingly deadpan (British?) sense of humor. The thing that impressed me the most about Jeff at that time was even the very best "traditional AI" students, post grads and facility quietly, and sometimes not so quietly, took his side and helped to fight off the fierce but unconvincing criticism leveled at him at that time. While I could understand why Jeff would flee to Toronto because of the DARPA money thing, I often wondered if he simply tired of the abuse at CMU.

[ebentee]

Geniuses are solving our problems for us. we appreciate them for their great job

[anushagupta]

So amazing!!! He seems so humble and down to earth..

[__-tohq]

"if you want to really understand something like the brain you have to build it first" EXACTLY how I look at it!