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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[@Vens8]

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

[@a-kkaz9791]

Vens8 lmao nice pun

[@dendikurniawan8577]

what a real pyhton!. lol

[@GiangTranAI]

haahaha funny

[@eugenarioshek70]

okaay mate

[@aldo3g]

ahahahaha

[@Wertdante]

"Limited by technology of my time " - Howard Stark

[@sagarmgandhi]

He is from future

[@ldinti03]

« Limited by the collective consciousness of my time » - Anonymous

[@anthonyneubauer4052]

He should have proceeded to work on technology

[@ahmaddwi2726]

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

[@VenturiLife]

Everyday is leg day. I'm surprised he doesn't have an upright seat of some kind.

[@blueocean2510]

Why not use a swing,

[@theespatier4456]

He even invented standing... amazing

[@romanhanajik3185]

lol, yes, but now we are only interested on AI. AI in the words of another genius is only better stats. For me standing is more important - i can sit only 2-5h a week.

[@rooksman64]

gold

[@swirlandtwirl5417]

Lol

[@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.

[@schrodingerscat3912]

ya learn something new everyday

[@aifan6148]

@Kevvy Kim Could you elaborate? Any news/paper on the first school of thought (a.k.a the math/medical side)? Is it perhaps Neuro Processing Chip?

[@aifan6148]

@Kevvy Kim Thank you for the explanation ❤☺ But at its core, deep learning is just chained regression. Of course, errors aggregates in different layers. So, a recent paper (neural ordinary differential equations) tried to improve the "fitting" process using infinite layers, a.k.a, using equations instead of discrete layers (like in calculus, from a series of discrete regressions to a continuous measurement). It's pretty just applied math. But personally, I don't think that's how the brain works, although they call it "neural" network. Quantum biology is going on in our brains (or at least in migratory bird's brains, and in plants' photosynthesis process), and even physicist cannot fully explain anything Quantum yet. Until then, I believe we won't be able to build AGI, not without mimicking the quantum process in nature.

[@biancaaguglia3742]

@@aifan6148 I agree. We're not close to building AGI yet. Thank you for mentioning that paper. Sounds like an interesting read. I'll take a look.

[@wiwiwiii]

Yeah, Mr Bool was a big Itchio ahead of its time

[@windandsea6237]

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

[@TheBlackManMythLegend]

Me too

[@forthehomies7043]

Love it

[@honestcommenter8424]

Well, he quit Google and warning from AI, the thing he spent his life building. If this was a sci-fi film I wouldn't have believed it, but it is happening in real life

[@gabrielateja2074]

Y que este vivo para alertarnos sobre lo que viene......

[@INVALIDZEROTheTitSucker69]

​@@honestcommenter8424 isn't that sad?

[@nayanmalig]

Deserves a standing ovation.

[@emenikeanigbogu9368]

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

[@appleshake1700]

Lol

[@blueocean2510]

That is how it done on board ship, it has been done like that for a long time.

[@TheIngPin]

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

[@edism]

Because mainstream people are idiots.

[@feraudyh]

I went for a visit to Carnegie-Mellon University in 1986 and saw him work in his office. I didn't want to disturb him because he was intensely concentrated. He had a name for himself then.

[@krzemian]

Yeah, now everybody's like "oh I've been using a standing desk for months" whereas they forget about the true visionnaire here

[@memespeech]

@@edism *educated idiots, the worst kind of idiots

[@snackers7]

Because now AI is popular topic. Its fashionable word these days. You dont know how much is the innovators in the world. Just dont get attention financial support and maybe dont want to.

[@alexdimitrov488]

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

[@Gabcikovo]

I love you, AI 😻😻😻

[@chomomma7403]

He has regretted making it now

[@Henry12341]

British * not Canadian

[@djb3500]

That is the benefit of being a historian. It only changes slowly, you are always working with hindsight and you always get the last say.

[@iowanation1034]

ChatGPT sucks

[@MsSuyash1995]

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

[@pranjaltiwari1663]

He has one

[@MsSuyash1995]

@@pranjaltiwari1663 I know but thanks for the reply...

[@robertvermeer5951]

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.

[@Lucas-zd8hl]

"Sometimes it takes years to become an overnight success"

[@MarkLucasProductions]

I'm only putting my comment here because your name is Lucas. I am a non academic but I attended a special interest group's talk at Melbourne University in the mid 80's where neural nets and parallel programing was discussed. I immediately understood the merits of this approach and thoroughly believed in it thereafter. However, as mentioned in the video, they couldn't make it work. Nevertheless from a philosophical perspective I could see clearly how it 'must' be able to work. Nowadays it is being touted as 'AI' or the means to AI. Whilst I understand what might be accomplished in the field of 'machine learning' I nevertheless seem to be in a very small minority of people who insist that 'artificial intelligence' is fundamentally impossible. Consciousness precedes intelligence. In order to build an 'intelligent' machine you must first build a 'conscious' machine. Neural nets might accomplish 'anything' but they cannot become conscious. Others think they know why machines 'can' achieve consciousness - I think I know why they absolutely can't.

[@snooks5607]

@@MarkLucasProductions it is thoroughly amazing to me that anyone in 80s, let alone 60s, thought they could make "real AI".. the problem could be studied of course but the hardware simply wasn't there yet. and they knew roughly how many neurons were in a human brain. I mean there was never even a chance. did you know IBM built a 512 node supercomputer in 2001 that cost $110M that calculated at around 12 teraflops, the new xbox you can get from local supermarket this year has roughly the same calculation power. and it is still not enough for even a rat brain. the hubris of thinking they had any chance half a century ago.

[@snooks5607]

@messiah yea, there's lots of issues with semantics of the words we use. people argue that intelligence requires intentionality, and that implies will or desire, i.e. feelings. although artificial neural networks can simulate emergent behavior it still boils down to programming and while we keep pushing the boundary of machine learning it never becomes AI, basically if you can explain it it's not AI. 🤷‍♂️

[@temporarychannel4339]

oc right here

[@unknownhacker2028]

Laugh's tiktok. I am serious.

[@morenofranco9235]

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

[@doom5832]

Then figuring out he did the wrong thing

[@lewissunflower6397]

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.

[@userprotection6298]

What a badass. Life treated him horribly by crippling him, and everyone doubted his work that would go on to be crucial in some of our life aspects today. Thank you, Geoff Hinton.

[@michaelgismondi9861]

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 bad......the 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.

[@jwingit]

It's Geoff not Jeff. :-)

[@michaelgismondi9861]

@@jwingit Well, they are pronounced the same, so the spelling is up to the individual I would think.

[@MindDataAI]

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

[@08680868]

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

[@OU81TWO]

@08680868 Yeah but then there's Beiber.

[@Bertydude]

I'm from Quebec but I also feel a lot Canadian not just a New France colonist.. :)

[@mattspaulding4912]

Sorry but he's British - born, raised and educated in Britain and that's where his career started. You can be proud of the fact that Canada helped him further his research - but you can't entirely claim him! Sorry!

[@joyal876]

Now Canada has a lot of Muslims and SJWs

[@steveg6199]

I chuckled when he said he went to a civilized town. Makes me proud to be Canadian. :-)

[@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”).

[@anushagupta4944]

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

[@ebentee]

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

[@blueocean2510]

Think challenge & solution, delete problem and all negative thoughts and words.

[@BayAreaDhillon]

Amazing! Highly motivational! But you can stand in a bus too!

[@Bertydude]

It's probably more like the stress on his joints is unbearable for him so the movement of the bus would be too much.

[@gabesusman4592]

legend

[@larrydugan1441]

Feynman said it best." Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts" One man sticks to his beliefs.

[@TomHaddigan]

Actually, Geoffrey Hinton was born in the UK and studied for his first degree in the UK. His family are famous British engineers and mathematicians...

[@bob50563]

Studied at Cambridge born in London. 👍

[@28bits20]

Yoshua Bengio is also a Canadian Pioneer of AI. He was the supervisor for Ian Goodfellow, one of the top AI researchers in the world working at Google right now.

[@faraza5161]

Everybody else was wrong .. Respect !!

[@jrdnbshp]

Glad to see someone standing up for what they believe in.

[@TahaKoroglu]

Literally and figuratively🙂

[@JambaYCS]

So cool. I have gotten into programming neural nets and i'm Canadian. I didn't even know that this happened in my country!

[@RodrigoCastilloCL]

Excelent, more of this kind of videos please!

[@davidfell5496]

"You just overfit and then regularize the hell out of it" (or whatever the precise phrase is) - absolutely one of those pearls

[@ruaismail3426]

😂 😂 😂 😂

[@marvinhall3725]

According to Jared who works at Porter Hospital in Littleton, CO they can hardwire into any ones brain to upload and download data 24/7. Jared works at Porter as a sleep specialist. These sleep studies are conducted on hotel rooms to make the experience comfortable and conducive to extracting data from patients who have sleep apnea and other sleeping disorders. If you want to take classes and graduate from a University with a PHD or doctorate you can. While you sleep your brain can be uploaded with all kinds of data and you can broaden your knowledge while you sleep. I have already designed alnd have several inventions and ideas that have been copyrighted. Look for news about these new technologies in the not to distant future.

[@__-to3hq]

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

[@wingtse9052]

I remember learning the computer programming language, Turing, at the University of Toronto, sweet memories!

[@kongchan437]

Me too.

[@cnccarving]

character recognition was in the late 60's approximately, when postal services purchased from japan the zipcode recognizer thats already recognised the handwritten digits..

[@ashrafal]

Respect him, He did not want to work for the Mafia.

[@menfoy]

"I didnt want to take military money" - next moment a military car is self-driving

[@5Gazto]

It's probably footage from the wrong vehicle.

[@cesteres]

I was about to make the same comment.

[@theodorewinston3891]

@5:33 So, why did Geoff Hinton build a self-driving military vehicle? _FACEPALM!_ Oh wait, that's Dean Pomerleau's ALVINN project at Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. I guess that had nothing to do with whether Hinton took military money or not, after all.

[@vamsikola2903]

@@theodorewinston3891 exactly bro

[@sibzzk]

His research paved the way for the driverless car, it doesnt say he built the car.

[@Ms123kill]

His uncle was an renowned economist, his father was entomologist, Mt Everest is named after one of his relative in 1800s, his grandfather was Mathematician who laid foundation for comp sci. .... Guess apple doesn’t fall far from the tree after all.

[@varcoliciulalex]

you forgot that he is British and not Canadian

[@AshishBangwal]

Sir wasn't wrong he was just early ♥️

[@abuzaydu]

what a guy! self-belief and never doubting the convictions he had to keep going! amazing

[@rahulsbhatt]

Thank you so much KZbin for recommending me this ❤️ Also thank you for making this video 💕

[@anovice8880]

great video from Bloomberg :D !! where is part 2 ? :P

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great short version of the documentary!😊

[@maurobruno6954]

Thank you very much for this video! It really provides a great insight on the role of Hinton in the history of AI

[@tyjoseph7343]

AI is accelerating and growing at such a remarkable pace. Who would’ve thought that two Canadian cities: Edmonton, AB and Toronto, ON, would end up being the epicentres and hubs for all things related to A.I & Machine Learning.

[@bengal_tiger1984]

I wanted to leave the city but not anymore after learning this haha.

[@yungrecentadvancement]

not me

[@kongchan437]

Not to mention Charles Thomas Bolton of U of T was the first scientist to actually found and identify a blackhole...and U of T aerospace engineers helped Apollo 13 landed back on earth safely.

[@mrd699]

Awesome!

[@susanc.4714]

This documentary is awesome. As a cognitive psychology and computer science student this man is an inspiration

[@ibrahimhasani6750]

What an incredible and modest man.

[@AbCDef-zs6uj]

This guy is awesome!

[@Janice-jo]

Watching this after he resigned from Google

[@barrycampion9679]

Every signal has a different heat, that's the key to self learning over time it learns these temperatures and remembers them

[@shalomtechnologynews1020]

He is indeed inspiring and he has impacted the world

[@Martinit0]

Imagine the monks who kept alive the tiny flame of knowledge through the dark centuries by storing and copying books

[@RahulSharma-bm2pg]

Imagine the monks that burned along the Libraries.......??????

[@RahulSharma-bm2pg]

@Snow 123 i see that you got the reference. UNESCO World Heritage Site where Books were burned for close to 3 months along with the Monks. Considered a Great Loss of Knowledge.

[@marklonguet-higgins6041]

There is no mention of H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, under whom Jeff did his PhD, first at Edinborough and then Sussex University. Why not?

[@djcuriosity6670]

A game changer no question! I'm glad my curiosity has appetite for info...

[@Muuip]

A great tool to create synergy between everyone's goals/ideals/purposes.

[@DARKKNIGHT-ur7uz]

This man lot of sense of humour I Love that

[@DavidL-ii7yn]

Interesting. Great to see UofT and Toronto in video. You located Buffalo at wrong spot on map, however. It's on Lake Erie, not Lake Ontario.

[@luisgonzalez1637]

David L shoutout to the six

[@TheBlackManMythLegend]

Amazing simply amazing persistence.

[@siddharthkotwal7149]

Thanks for changing my life Geoff.

[@tylerhood5035]

Wow never thought I'd say this ,but SOMEONE PLEASE GET THIS MAN A HOVERBOARD!

[@romanhanajik3185]

Who need be FAT?

[@cbrtdgh4210]

Andrew Ng was born in and spent his early years in Britain as well.

[@melancholiac]

Many years ago, I watched a TV programme where Geoff Hinton 'energetically ' debated John (Chinese Room) Searle over Artificial Intelligence. Very entertaining.

[@wilhemj.loboguzman1793]

thank you sir

[@MashDaddy]

Hinton went from perceptron, to deep convolutional networks, to capsule networks, but he will end up with a network based on Graph Theory. W.T. Tutte is the little known genius - (another British transplant who found a home for research in Canada). Math grads from Waterloo know W.T. Tutte. He broke the Lorenz cipher to help win WWII. Alan Turing is a shadow compared to the towering intellect of W.T. Tutte.

[@ivoriankoua3916]

really I feel so dumb and a lot of appreciation for those genius at the same time

[@KSmifune]

It was Yann LeCunn developed convolutional neural networks but Hinton's work on deep multi-layer perceptron help laid the foundation for ConvNets to work.

[@Darpan7154]

Truly inspirational!

[@filobloomz]

I love it when the music gets louder, fast-paced and drowns out the people being interviewed. It's how I learn

[@RahulSood1]

Fed up of USA and went to Toronto 'the civilzed town '👍😂

[@sohailbasha7781]

Wow in very 1980s there were self driving vehicles!!

[@ajaythomaslukose1635]

Great work

[@andyjiao3114]

He is so admirable in character.

[@prasenjeet419]

The worst part is people like him are ridiculed first, when they need the most support. That's the price they end up paying for being smarter than others

[@mrbeastwithnomoney]

That's why he's called godfather of AI🤟

[@blueocean2510]

Perhaps he could become a comedian, everyone likes them. The trick is not to make them aware the jokes are about them.

[@superresistant8041]

This aged well

[@Thomas-tf4cm]

Great report.

[@bigdaddypakistan4180]

Three words, perception, courasity and believe. I am watching it now. Hello world 👋😊. Great sir 👍

[@aneesahmad2824]

"There was just one problem. It didn't work very well."

[@adamczyzewski7357]

Very cool, but I’d love to hear the guy’s views on how we’re going to cope with having advanced AI among us. He clearly must have given it a lot of thought!

[@DJ-lo8qj]

He has a new interview with CBS released just a few weeks ago. It’s the best interview I’ve heard him give, and he discusses many of the things you’d like to hear; worth checking out!

[@blueocean2510]

AI may be complex in the Anglo linear world, in the Non Anglo linear world it is not.

[@cexploreful]

such inspiring!

[@CandyLV72]

How satisfying is it for this interviewer to look back at this piece now in 2023?

[@Galaxyofbrian]

You get yourself an exoskeleton, they are developed for people who work standing so they can stay standing but put the weight onto the exoskeleton instead of their own bones. ✌️ 💙

[@mikechisum1297]

They did not have them back in the day and just kept walking and standing. He also so could have used a hoverboard for walking?

[@sudosara]

The OG

[@SuperBhavanishankar]

Mean over Genius?

[@cooliipie]

Operation Grandpa?

[@Interestingworld4567]

-*Old Gangster*_

[@gaganbarman6604]

He is a nice funny guy.... He love his character..🤗🤗

[@lavonnealexander6936]

Wow 😮I never heard of this man and I am Canadian. I am so glad to have found him now.

[@MdWahidurRahmanOvi]

"Something no One, and no Computer could ever have predicted."- Last Line of this video

[@DarkKnight-ke5bx]

So this guy created neural network niiiiice love yout invention use it a lot

[@SaurabhKr]

That's super cool and inspiring

[@sathyaragunathan5917]

Great fan of his work 🙏

[@rofu37]

I'm taking a neural network class from this OG through Coursera.

[@roe2012]

The godfather, the magician.

[@maquindesign9158]

Data is also key. Learning comes from accumulation of useful data.

[@TranscenDaMental]

He seems to be a very brilliant man they never give up I admire that very much!

[@raunakthakur317]

I think His motivation is to get in a self driving car while having a sleep so he didn't have to sit and drive the car

[@romanhanajik3185]

:D best comment!

[@blueocean2510]

Have a bath in a self driving car, or self flying.

[@supersmart671]

Who build the brain? I am amazed at the design of the brain.

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks

[@panashifzco3311]

A true inspiration

[@Techado]

"sort of relief that people finally came to their senses" , I wish kids playing fortnite saw this and get inspired

[@Wulfcry]

There a bit more history behind the a.i field. Before it all started of they've used and build their own electronics. then the computer chip aka the cpu came, Programming language. The need for faster processing became an oddity from super computers which been very expensive and to exotic for most university to acces or purchase and transputers which could be anything from a cluster of dsp and cpu much to novel. So that stalled the field a bit of and the community that wither due to its less promising results and seriousness. It was then with the 32 bit cpu the pentium 2 and 3 special instruction set like SSE. Those chips and others which then fueled to build servers and gawd the mystery still is why it had not gotten of half way the eighties. Oh wait the ever expanding phone and mobile market. The market got more focus on the growing phone market to much with switch boards. But luckily together with that the data market also started to flourish in very small increment steps however it was enough to spur the thing that was called the world wide web to grow even bigger faster better. And here we are today some call it the rise of a.i but it was already there for decades. The only thing it needs is the next big thing to fuel and idea and build it as it was supposed to be just as the faster cpu did , servers , switch boards and the internet. Who knows maybe quantum computing is the next increment.

[@Wulfcry]

ISBS ISBS I can answer that. KZbin is a valid platform like any social site. The diversity of its strength are the video's, That said visual versus reading consumptions divers per person one might take in the whole contend or skim it and say I understand or know the subject or say bravo yay that great. If you're well known in the subject people happly read it find out more for themselves or share what they have to add in addition. KZbin a powerful platform ask anyone like pewdiepie etc.

[@gregd6022]

@ISBS ISBS your comment says everything about you and nothing about the comment at hand. I appreciate WulfCry's comment, kinda calls BS on the "lone hero" archetype that silly media loves, and he's dead on. AI had been around for ages, created by many and has risen now due to cheap compute power, not this guy in the vid.

[@doctordemento965]

If you haven't noticed... the history is skewed by "bloomberg" and as a matter of fact, had VERY little to do with the actual conception or development of A.I. and neural net technology. I can assure you writing my thesis on this in college... that an algorithm... which is basically what he has developed... is a base feature of a network.... nothing more or less. Google's algorithms quite frankly are nothing more than a manipulation tool.

[@youtubepooppismo5284]

There's a playlist on youtube about a deep learning introductory course. It's just amazing

[@river941]

Congrats on the Turing sir!!

[@maudentable]

A genius bu, though, he did not create Modern AI, he perfected it.

[@purefatdude2]

He didn't perfect anything. He started the recent deep learning boom. Current models are not perfect but it is being perfected by many researchers around the world.