44 Quotes by Geoffrey Hinton

The future depends on some graduate student who is deeply suspicious of everything I have said.

In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.

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.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

Take any old classification problem where you have a lot of data, and it's going to be solved by deep learning. There's going to be thousands of applications of deep learning.

We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.

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

I think it's very clear now that we will have self-driving cars.

Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.