Geoffrey Hinton

The role of radiologists will evolve from doing perceptual things that could probably be done by a highly trained pigeon to doing far more cognitive things. ”

I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.' ”

The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data. ”

Once your computer is pretending to be a neural net, you get it to be able to do a particular task by just showing it a whole lot of examples. ”

I think the way we're doing computer vision is just wrong. ”

The pooling operation used in convolutional neural networks is a big mistake, and the fact that it works so well is a disaster. ”

I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better - and when that's closely related to how the brain works. ”

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. ”

In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations. ”

Most people in AI, particularly the younger ones, now believe that if you want a system that has a lot of knowledge in, like an amount of knowledge that would take millions of bits to quantify, the only way to get a good system with all that knowledge in it is to make it learn it. You are not going to be able to put it in by hand. ”