44 Quotes by Geoffrey Hinton

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

The role of radiologists will evolve from doing perceptual things that could probably be done by a highly trained pigeon to doing far more cognitive things.

Making everything more efficient should make everybody happier.

In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.

I had a stormy graduate career, where every week we would have a shouting match. I kept doing deals where I would say, 'Okay, let me do neural nets for another six months, and I will prove to you they work.' At the end of the six months, I would say, 'Yeah, but I am almost there. Give me another six months.'

Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.

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

My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.

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