Titans of Science: Geoff Hinton

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Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode of The Naked Scientists marks the return of a brand news series of Titans of Science, where some of the movers and shakers of the scientific and technological world help us to unpick a big problem. Kicking us off is the AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, with a fascinating insight into artificial intelligence, how it actually works and what we need to be wary of... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.0	Absolutely genius.
0:04.0	Get this.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	This is the show where we bring science.
0:08.0	What that essentially means is discovery is
0:10.0	advances, research, technology, unbelievable.
0:13.4	Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.
0:17.8	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist.
0:19.8	This is the program which strives to bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and
0:24.3	medicine.
0:25.3	I'm Chris Smith and today the return of Titans of Science, long-form interviews with some of
0:30.8	science's most influential figures solving some of the world's biggest problems.
0:35.4	And in this episode, I'm sitting down with the pioneer of artificial intelligence, Jeff Hinton.
0:41.3	From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the
0:46.4	Naked Scientists. Jeffrey Hinton was born on the 6th of December 1947 in Wimbledon. He's the great-great-grandson of the mathematician and educator Mary
1:05.7	Everest bull and her husband the logician George bull. Other notable family members
1:10.4	include the surgeon and author James Hinton and the mathematician Charles Howard
1:14.8	Hinton.
1:15.8	Jeffrey attended Clifton College in Bristol before embarking on an array of undergraduate studies
1:19.8	at Cambridge that took him philosophy and natural sciences.
1:22.8	He graduated with a degree in experimental psychology in 1970.
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