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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

The ‘Godfather of AI’ says we can’t afford to get it wrong

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Geoffrey Hinton is one of the world’s biggest minds in artificial intelligence. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Where does he think AI is headed?

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This is on point. I'm Megynchakrabardi. In 2024, Jeffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics,

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a category that somewhat amused him, as we'll hear about in just a

1:12.3

moment. The Nobel Committee gave him the award for, quote, foundational discoveries and

1:17.6

inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. He shared the honor

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with John Hopfield. Earlier in 2018, Hinton and two other longtime collaborators,

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Yoshua Benjillo and Jan Lee Kuhn, also received the Turing Award,

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which is often called the Nobel Prize of Computing,

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for their work on neural networks.

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