Full interview: 'Godfather of artificial intelligence' talks impact and potential of AI

Geoffrey Hinton is considered a godfather of artificial intelligence, having championed machine learning decades before it became mainstream. As chatbots like ChatGPT bring his work to widespread attention, we spoke to Hinton about the past, present and future of AI. CBS Saturday Morning's Brook Silva-Braga interviewed him at the Vector Institute in Toronto on March 1, 2023.

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[OkalaborationO]

This interview should be saved as an historical artifact.

[JonathanBregelDotCom]

I'm most impressed by the fact that they both stood standing in conversation for 42 minutes.

[alexanderfinlay]

Good people, It is happening, the future of work is being redesigned. Yes, More tech companies wants to fire more workers from next week: "The third wave is going to happen next week. That affects everybody in the biz teams, including in my organization. It's just a time of great anxiety and uncertainty" Says Meta President.

[pradeeppadala]

Dear CBS, this is the most profound interview with the most profound person of our times. Thank you for this.
Edit: I just realized Dr. Hinton cannot sit due to back issues from a long time. I'm just awed by what a man can achieve with such an underlying health condition.

[jordan]

@CBS This guy needs to interview more people in the AI space. He knows the right questions.

[DavidOA_Businessman]

This is one of the best interviews on the topics of Artificial intelligence, deep learning and language models.

[marcorocci-ctkw]

I just bought more of these NVIDIA stock a few minutes ago. Tying up money due to an apocalyptic stock market crash is also not a smart move my advice will be to invest in other AI stocks. Life is a risk and it's better to take risks than to do nothing, you can't always expect to make huge profits all the time, people have so many opinions about a recession/depression. In just 5 months my portfolio grew by $300, 000 in gross profit, the main thing is to expand your portfolio and you will see amazing results by investing smartly.

[catherineo]

I was so struck by Geoffrey Hinton‘s humanity…which shown through all his thoughtful responses. Thank you for this excellent and enlightening interview.

[keithmiller]

With a brain so large and in a man so confident that he felt totally at ease in answering many questions with "I don't know".. And possessed of no inclination to just wing it. An amazing man.

[bennyflint]

Thank you CBS for presenting an intelligent, long form interview at such an important time in history. The public needs to understand as best they can.

[jmisfdq]

My team works on Tammy AI to enhance the learning experience on YouTube. We have since come to the realization that AI needs to be controlled or we risk "unleashing demons".

[zy]

Even if he sometimes cut short Hinton's responses, the interviewer did a good job for a major TV network's science interview. Fortunately, Hinton's appreciation of what a good explanation is, made him just ignore his interruptions and continued with the train of thought of the answer to the original question. Thank you Geoffrey Hinton

[carson_tang]

2:45 – why mainstream AI in the 1980s shunned neural networks
3:21 – Hinton believed in neural networks because the brain worked this way
4:31 – two different paths to intelligence
6:15 – lack of data and compute that impeded deep learning’s progress
8:57 – the start of deep learning in 2006
10:04 – two big deep learning developments: speech recognition at Google and object recognition at University of Toronto
10:49 – how object recognition works in layman’s terms
15:47 – breakthroughs in object recognition influencing the AI community
18:28 – why Hinton likes the company Cohere
19:20 – biological brains vs digital brains
21:39 – ChatGPT as an “idiot savant” with a lack of understanding of truth
24:56 – how society should handle this new AI
30:52 – self-healing minefield proposed by the government
31:43 – how to create an effective autonomous solder and the alignment problem
33:12 – are large language models “just autocomplete”? Are humans “just autocomplete”?
33:52 – translating “The trophy would not fit in the suitcase because it was too big” into French. English-French translation and the insights it provides into LLMs’ understanding of the world
35:50 – computers coming up with new ideas for itself
37:00 – AI displacing jobs
38:15 – how big of a revolution is AI?
40:37 – is AI sentient?

[faahim]

This is probably the best interview on the topic I've seen so far. It's one of the rare ones where not just the interviewee is absolutely brilliant, but the interviewer is also brilliant enough to bring that out and give enough space to blossom.

[TenebrionDF]

Hearing this man talk about his thoughts regarding sentience is incredibly cathartic. I've been saying the same thing, and to hear this come from the mouth of an expert is just... just the best.

[Krastonscott]

One of the best interviews I’ve heard in many years. Recommend this interview be shown to all high school students. Our future generations will need to have an understanding of how AI will have an impact on everything we do here on Earth and beyond.

[datatheandroid]

One of the best interviews of him. Easy for laymen to understand.

[jordan]

I was pleasantly surprised by the knowledgeable and well-researched interviewer. Well done!

[Codetutor-DemystifyCoding]

For the first time I am dejected that one can upvote a video only once. This interview is a watershed moment in the general public discourse on AI. the credit should go to interviewer as well for coming up with really good questions and also asking right leading questions for the answer Hinton gave. People are going to refer to this video again and again in future. Hands down one of the best interview that I have watched in recent times on this subject.

[harryle]

I'm glad to see that he's still alive to see his vision comes true and he was right all along. Great respect for the guy!