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🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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0:00.0 | They call you the godfather of AI. |
0:02.7 | So what would you be saying to people about their career prospects in a world of superintelligence? |
0:07.2 | Trying to be a plumber. |
0:08.5 | Really? |
0:09.1 | Yeah. |
0:10.3 | Okay, I'm going to become a plumber. |
0:12.2 | Jeffrey Hinton is the Nobel Prize winning pioneer whose groundbreaking work has shaped AI. |
0:17.5 | And the future of humanity. |
0:19.5 | Why do they call you the godfather of AI? Because there weren't many people who believed that we could model AI on the future of humanity. Why do they call you the godfather of AI? |
0:21.3 | Because there weren't many people who believed that we could model AI on the brain |
0:25.0 | so that it learned to do complicated things, like recognize objects and images or even do |
0:29.3 | reasoning. |
0:29.8 | And I pushed that approach for 50 years. |
0:31.7 | And then Google acquired that technology. |
0:33.4 | And I worked there for 10 years on something that's now used all the time in AI. |
0:36.7 | And then you left? |
0:37.5 | Yeah. Why? |
0:38.3 | So that I could talk freely at a conference. |
0:40.4 | What did you want to talk about freely? |
0:42.7 | How dangerous AI could be. |
0:45.4 | I realized that these things will one day get smarter than us. |
0:48.6 | And we've never had to deal with that. |
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