The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Geoffrey Hinton is the archetypal Pioneer, a leader whose influence came from pursuing an unfashionable idea for decades until the world caught up. He championed neural networks through long periods when the field dismissed them, mentoring a generation of researchers in Toronto who went on to drive the deep learning revolution.
“That's because they're digital, and you can have two bits of hardware using the connection strengths in exactly the same way. We're analog and you can't do that. Your brain's different from my brain.”
“It had understood the analogy between a compost heap and an atom bomb, and the reason I believe that is if you've only got a trillion connections, remember you have a hundred trillion, and you need to have thousands of times more knowledge than a person, you need to compress information into those connections.”
“People say, well, why don't we just stop it now? We're not going to stop it because it's too good for too many things. Also, we're not going to stop it because it's good for battle robots. And none of the countries that sell weapons are going to want to stop it.”
“That's how we think it's working. Nobody really knows for sure how the brain works, and nobody knows how it gets the information about whether you should increase the strength of a connection or decrease the strength of a connection. That's the crucial thing.”
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