The Origins of Artificial Intelligence with Geoffrey Hinton

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🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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How did we go from digital computers to AI seemingly everywhere? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly dive into the mechanics of thinking, how AI got its start, and what deep learning really means with cognitive and computer scientist, Nobel Laureate, and one of the architects of AI, Geoffrey Hinton.

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0:00.0	Gary, you had the audacity to bring in a Nobel laureate expert in AI to tell us we're all going to die.
0:05.9	Well, of course.
0:07.1	Actually, all we had to do was ask AI.
0:10.1	Coming up, StarTalk Special Edition, how AI will be the death or the birth of civilization coming right up.
0:20.1	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:22.5	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:28.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:32.9	This is StarTalk Special Edition.
0:36.2	Neil DeGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:38.7	And if it's special edition, it means we've got Gary O'Reilly.
0:41.7	Hey, Neil.
0:42.2	Gary.
0:43.0	Gary.
0:43.3	How you doing, man?
0:43.9	I'm good.
0:44.3	I'm good.
0:45.2	Former soccer pro.
0:45.3	Yes.
0:45.7	So, Chuck, always good to have you.
0:47.1	Always a pleasure.
0:48.2	So, Gary, you and your team picked a topic for the ages today. Yeah, it's one of those things that we hear about it. We think we know about it. But let me put it to you this way. We are faced with the simple fact that AI at this point is... We're going to talk about AI today. We are? It's inescapable. A deep dive? Oh, yeah. Yes, go. Right. It was only a few years ago when we asked people how AI works,
1:12.2	they'll say something along the lines of it utilizes deep learning, neural networks.
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