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Geoffrey Hinton
@geoffreyhinton
deep learning
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Mar 2, 2025
    I think Elon Musk should be expelled from the British Royal Society. Not because he peddles conspiracy theories and makes Nazi salutes, but because of the huge damage he is doing to scientific institutions in the US. Now let's see if he really believes in free speech.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    May 1, 2023
    In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Apr 28, 2025
    AGI is the most important and potentially dangerous technology of our time. OpenAI was right that this technology merits strong structures and incentives to ensure it is developed safely, and is wrong now in attempting to change these structures and incentives. We're urging the
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Apr 28, 2025
    I like OpenAI’s mission of 'ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”, and I’d like to stop them from completely gutting it. I’ve signed on to a new letter to @AGRobBonta & @DE_DOJ asking them to halt the restructuring. (1/2)
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    May 5, 2023
    Dishonest CBC headline: "Canada's AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says AI could wipe out humans. In the meantime, there's money to be made". The second sentence was said by a journalist, not me, but you wouldn't know that.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Jun 17, 2020
    I thought I had a very good idea about perceptual learning and accepted several invitations to give talks about it next week. But I have just discovered a fatal flaw in the idea, so I am cancelling all those talks. I apologize.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Feb 20, 2020
    Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate. Do you want the AI surgeon to be illegal?
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    Geoffrey Hinton
    @geoffreyhinton
    Oct 31, 2023
    Andrew Ng is claiming that the idea that AI could make us extinct is a big-tech conspiracy. A datapoint that does not fit this conspiracy theory is that I left Google so that I could speak freely about the existential threat.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Jun 8, 2025
    There is a book on Amazon called "Modern AI Revolution" by Geoffrey Hinton. This is a scam. It has nothing to do with me and I wish Amazon would remove it.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Nov 24, 2023
    Yann LeCun thinks the risk of AI taking over is miniscule. This means he puts a big weight on his own opinion and a miniscule weight on the opinions of many other equally qualified experts.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Jun 10, 2020
    Extrapolating the spectacular performance of GPT3 into the future suggests that the answer to life, the universe and everything is just 4.398 trillion parameters.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Mar 15, 2023
    Reinforcement Learning by Human Feedback is just parenting for a supernaturally precocious child.
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Mar 27, 2019
    The X factor: When I was an undergrad at Kings College Cambridge, Les Valiant who won the Turing award in 2010 lived in the adjacent room on X staircase. He just told me that Turing lived on X staircase when he was a fellow at Kings and probably wrote his 1936 paper there!
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    Geoffrey Hinton
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    Mar 27, 2025
    I recently got a subscription to the Atlantic. Its is a great magazine.
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