Name: This Canadian Genius Created Modern AI
Uploaded: 2020-03-08T00:32:48.000Z
Duration: 8 min 33 s
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Because of a back condition, he hasn't been able

I hate standing, I would much rather sit down,

but if I sit down I have a disc that comes out.

Well, at least now standing desks are fashionable and--

I was standing when they weren't fashionable.

The walk says a lot about Hinton and his resolve.

For nearly 40 years, Hinton has been trying

to get computers to learn like people do.

A quest almost everyone thought was crazy,

Right up until the moment it revolutionized the field.

Google thinks this is the future of the company.

Amazon thinks this is the future of the company.

My own department thinks this stuff's probably nonsense

and we shouldn't be doing any more of it.

So, I talked everybody into it except my own department.

full of famous mathematicians and economists

and, I was curious what that was like for you.

I realized I was gonna have to get a Ph.D.

Geoff Hinton pretty early on became obsessed

with this idea of figuring out how the mind works.

then he got into psychology, and then finally,

he settled on more of a computer science approach

to modeling the brain, and got into artificial intelligence.

a really complicated device like a brain,

and you could think you could understand cars.

When you try to build a car, you suddenly discover

then there's this stuff that has to go under the hood,

As Geoff was starting to think about these ideas,

he got inspired by some AI researchers across the pond.

Specifically, this guy: Frank Rosenblatt.

and it was a neural network, a computing system

that the human brain does it's computation.

They take their incoming data like we do from our senses,

and they actually learn, so the neural net

Rosenblatts's hope was that you could feed

and it would eventually learn how to tell them apart.

There was just one problem: it didn't work very well.

Rosenblatt, his neural network was the single layer

of neurons, and it was limited in what it could do.

And a colleague of his wrote a book in the late 60s

And, it kind of put the whole area of research

It was just obvious to me that everything

and so, it has to be that stuff like this can work,

And what do you think that it was inside of you

Just, that you thought it was the right direction to go?

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