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Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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All you need is lots and lots of data and lots of information about what the right answer is, and you'll be able to train a big neural net to do what you want.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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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.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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

~Geoffrey Hinton

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Psychologist

Born: December 6th, 1947

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