Geoffrey Hinton

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1	Apr 28, '25	I like OpenAI’s mission of 'ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”, and I’d like to stop them from completely gutting it. I’ve signed on to a new let	⚡ 40.9×	37.6M	7.6k	868	1.1k
2	Feb 20, '20	Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate. Do	30.3×	0	4.6k	1k	206
3	May 1, '23	In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this	24.8×	3M	15k	2.8k	736
4	Nov 24, '23	Yann LeCun thinks the risk of AI taking over is miniscule. This means he puts a big weight on his own opinion and a miniscule weight on the opinions of many other equally qualified	24.2×	2.9M	4.2k	468	1.1k
5	Jun 17, '20	I thought I had a very good idea about perceptual learning and accepted several invitations to give talks about it next week. But I have just discovered a fatal flaw in the idea, s	24×	0	5.8k	385	99
6	Jun 10, '20	Extrapolating the spectacular performance of GPT3 into the future suggests that the answer to life, the universe and everything is just 4.398 trillion parameters.	19.5×	0	3.9k	655	189
7	Apr 28, '25	AGI is the most important and potentially dangerous technology of our time. OpenAI was right that this technology merits strong structures and incentives to ensure it is developed	18.1×	2.2M	8.9k	1.6k	1k
8	Jun 18, '20	A non-linearity that works much better than ReLUs. The work described in this video might also be relevant to understanding grid cells.	17.5×	0	2.7k	691	508
9	Mar 2, '25	I think Elon Musk should be expelled from the British Royal Society. Not because he peddles conspiracy theories and makes Nazi salutes, but because of the huge damage he is doing t	16.9×	2M	23k	3.2k	1.6k
10	Feb 26, '21	I have a new paper on how to represent part-whole hierarchies in neural networks.	16.3×	0	2.9k	586	367
11	Mar 27, '19	The X factor: When I was an undergrad at Kings College Cambridge, Les Valiant who won the Turing award in 2010 lived in the adjacent room on X staircase. He just told me that Turin	14.5×	0	3.3k	430	25
12	Jan 15, '19	My Coursera MOOC "Neural Networks for Machine Learning" was prepared in 2012 and is now seriously out of date so I have asked them to discontinue the course. But the lectures are s	13.4×	0	2.4k	479	278
13	Oct 31, '23	Andrew Ng is claiming that the idea that AI could make us extinct is a big-tech conspiracy. A datapoint that does not fit this conspiracy theory is that I left Google so that I cou	11.9×	1.4M	5.3k	559	874
14	Oct 27, '23	New paper: Companies are planning to train models with 100x more computation than today’s state of the art, within 18 months. No one knows how powerful they will be. And there’s es	11.7×	1.4M	3k	674	1k
15	Feb 14, '20	Unsupervised learning of representations is beginning to work quite well without requiring reconstruction.	11.5×	0	1.9k	480	276
16	Jul 22, '19	This is a much better version of capsules.	11.4×	0	2k	512	193
17	Mar 27, '19	@JeffDean @ylecun @TheOfficialACM Thanks to my graduate students and postdocs whose work won a Turing award. Thanks to my visionary mentors Inman Harvey, David Rumelhart and Terry	11.3×	0	2.5k	347	20
18	May 5, '23	Dishonest CBC headline: "Canada's AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says AI could wipe out humans. In the meantime, there's money to be made". The second sentence was said by a journalist	8.8×	1M	6.2k	796	175
19	Sep 10, '21	Canadian politicians are talking about setting up a Canadian DARPA. Tying precious research dollars to military applications is not an efficient way to innovate and will lead to ob	7.8×	0	1.8k	202	33
20	Oct 31, '23	@ylecun Let's open source nuclear weapons too to make them safer. The good guys (us) will always have bigger ones than the bad guys (them) so it should all be OK.	7.6×	905k	829	77	84
21	Mar 25, '20	Shooting someone on Fifth Avenue and getting away with it seems like a minor indiscretion compared with killing thousands of New Yorkers by refusing to order the manufacture of ven	6.3×	0	1.4k	204	12
22	Sep 10, '24	I was happy to add my name to this list of employees and alumni of AI companies. These signatories have better insight than almost anyone else into what is coming next with AI and	6.2×	742k	1.7k	217	292
23	Jan 14, '19	The Google Brain team in Toronto has openings for several research scientists who have already made exceptional contributions to research on deep learning or its applications in NL	6.2×	0	1k	305	28
24	Apr 21, '19	@ilyasut The future is already here: I trained a neural net called Ilya for 10 years :-)	6.0×	0	1.4k	131	25
25	Dec 10, '20	Finding the natural parts of an object and their intrinsic coordinate frames without supervision is a crucial step in learning to parse images into part-whole hierarchies. If we st	5.3×	0	922	171	150
26	Apr 24, '20	This is a really neat way of using neural networks to get rid of polygonal meshes. The interaction of computer graphics with neural networks is really exciting.	5.3×	0	930	201	115
27	Mar 14, '23	Caterpillars extract nutrients which are then converted into butterflies. People have extracted billions of nuggets of understanding and GPT-4 is humanity's butterfly.	5.3×	628k	3.1k	579	282
28	Mar 16, '20	I have one N95 mask. After using, I put it in a plastic bag, wash my hands and bake at 170F for 2 hours. My guess is that a half-baked mask is better than none. I would love to kno	5.2×	0	1.1k	94	52
29	Dec 12, '21	Equivariance rules!	5.1×	0	922	143	157
30	Nov 27, '23	One evening this summer, my partner and I saw the Loch Ness monster swimming in Lake Huron. It was at least 10 feet long and swam in an undulating fashion with big black humps that	5.1×	604k	992	83	197
31	Jun 26, '21	A common argument against taking inspiration from the brain when designing neural networks is that it's like taking inspiration from feathers when designing flying machines. Drones	5.0×	0	1k	136	59
32	Mar 3, '20	Organizers of data science and machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, ICLR, UAI, ...): Allow remote paper & poster presentations at conferences - Sign the Petiti	5.0×	0	852	261	19
33	Mar 15, '23	Reinforcement Learning by Human Feedback is just parenting for a supernaturally precocious child.	4.0×	479k	3.1k	445	256
34	Nov 7, '23	Fei-Fei Li has written a book. She was the first computer vision researcher to truly understand the power of big data and her work opened the floodgates for deep learning. She deli	4.0×	473k	2.7k	422	782
35	Nov 1, '23	I suspect that Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun have missed the main reason why the big companies want regulations. Years ago the founder of a self-driving company told me that he liked sa	3.9×	461k	2.4k	246	343
36	Jun 8, '25	There is a book on Amazon called "Modern AI Revolution" by Geoffrey Hinton. This is a scam. It has nothing to do with me and I wish Amazon would remove it.	3.8×	452k	4.5k	360	252
37	Mar 27, '25	I recently got a subscription to the Atlantic. Its is a great magazine.	3.7×	444k	3.3k	190	156
38	Oct 11, '23	Since leaving Google, I have received many requests to join the advisory boards of start-ups and, until now, I have declined them all. However, I have decided to join as an advisor	3.6×	433k	1.9k	147	241
39	Apr 4, '24	There is a UK company called Profit Crunch Ltd that is fraudulent. They claim i am a director and use my reputation to reassure investors. They are crooks. I have nothing to do wit	3.5×	420k	1.7k	220	112
40	May 30, '25	I just watched a great compilation of various people's views about what is coming:	3.4×	405k	2k	403	1.7k
41	Oct 21, '22	Renjie finally got Gaussian-Bernoulli RBMs to work well.	3.4×	0	590	77	118
42	Jun 18, '24	I’m excited to share that I have joined the advisory board of @cusp_ai who have today come out of stealth mode and are using cutting edge AI to tackle one of the most urgent proble	2.9×	346k	2k	174	194
43	Oct 14, '25	I did a podcast with Jon Stewart who has always been a hero of mine. It was a lot of fun. He really wanted to understand how AI works.	2.9×	345k	1.8k	279	746
44	Aug 21, '20	My wonderful former graduate student, Roland Memisevic, used neural networks to make a great fitness app:	2.9×	0	580	78	51
45	May 23, '24	New AI safety paper in Science with a lot of authors:	2.9×	344k	1.5k	389	642
46	Jun 6, '22	Does HSBC UK have any ML people? HSBC will not comply with my written instructions to transfer money within the UK. Fraud detection says it must be authorized by high value transfe	2.7×	0	540	34	31
47	Apr 28, '25	Researchgate sent me a fake paper called "The AI Health Revolution: Personalizing Care through Intelligent Case-based Reasoning" which claims to be by me and Yann LeCun. More than	2.6×	315k	1k	111	143
48	Mar 23, '20	Students at U. Toronto have a website for people in the Greater Toronto Area to report symptoms of COVID-19. The reported numbers of likely positive cases and vulnerable individual	2.4×	0	357	146	8
49	Jun 22, '23	The University of Toronto made a video for a non technical audience in which I explain how deep learning works, the enormous promise of this technology and some of the potential ri	2.3×	269k	1.7k	482	848
50	Oct 31, '23	@AndrewYNg So what is your best estimate of the probability that if AI is not strongly regulated it will lead to human extinction in the next 30 years? If you are a true Bayesian y	2.2×	268k	668	63	114
51	Jan 8, '24	The way it attends to relevant parts of the visual input seems almost human, though its attending in parallel as well as sequentially.	2.2×	264k	384	58	89
52	May 6, '20	My friend @Jordanjacobs10 of @RadicalVCFund asked what I thought of the @covariantAI team and technology. I told him I had made a rather small investment (I don't want to reinforce	2.1×	0	466	54	25
53	Nov 25, '23	@ylecun The central issue on which we disagree is whether LLMs actually understand what they are saying. You think they definitely don't and I think they probably do. Do you agree	2.1×	246k	610	37	124
54	Jan 19, '23	A huge amount of practical experience has been distilled into this great guide to tuning deep learning models.	2.0×	240k	835	142	292
55	Feb 22, '19	Some new work from the brain team in Toronto @rishabh_467 @Mo_Norouzi	2.0×	0	402	77	19
56	Jun 8, '21	I am excited to support @raquelutrasun as she begins her next chapter with @waabi_ai. She has been an AI pioneer for the last 20 years and will bring new thinking to an incredibly	1.9×	0	491	26	10
57	May 4, '23	@pmddomingos and for a long time, most people thought the earth was flat. If we did make something MUCH smarter than us, what is your plan for making sure it doesn't manipulate us	1.9×	228k	1.8k	144	76
58	May 26, '20	@ilyasut Doing something of your own free will means the decision to do it was based on your own goals and desires. Free will is perfectly compatible with determinism.	1.7×	0	358	39	17
59	Jun 7, '25	Congratulations to @Yoshua_Bengio on launching @LawZero_ — a research effort to advance safe-by-design AI, especially as frontier systems begin to exhibit signs of self-preservatio	1.6×	193k	1.6k	178	219
60	Jun 11, '23	@AndrewYNg I used to talk to Andrew a lot and it was great to catch up again and get his take on the various risks posed by recent developments in AI. We agreed on a lot of things,	1.6×	191k	995	68	27
61	Nov 27, '23	If two boats on a similar course went by some time ago, their wakes would be small and almost parallel. Where the wakes intersect you would get an interference pattern of bigger wa	1.5×	178k	244	25	9
62	Mar 24, '20	I was not far off! Data from @StanfordEng Professors @yicuistanford & Steven Chu show #N95masks can be decontaminated without decreasing filtration efficiency using 70C heat fo	1.3×	0	249	39	18
63	Nov 27, '23	Someone with access to two boats should be able to recreate this and make a viral video of it. The water needs to be rough enough to disguise the wakes except when they positively	1.3×	154k	281	20	14
64	Apr 29, '24	@martin_casado @radicalvcfund If you leave it to companies to decide what is safe you get the Boeing 737 max.	1.2×	148k	405	24	35
65	Nov 25, '23	@pmddomingos is that the whole story? Isn't it also relevant that Bill Gates has given away a lot of his wealth whereas Steve Ballmer would rather own a basketball team than fix ma	1.2×	147k	1.2k	42	32
66	Apr 24, '20	The sequence modeling group at the Toronto lab of Google Research has some really impressive new work on generating the words in a sequence in parallel. Imputers rock!	1.2×	0	210	49	25
67	May 3, '23	@dontfearai I now predict 5 to 20 years but without much confidence. We live in very uncertain times. It's possible that I am totally wrong about digital intelligence overtaking us	1.0×	120k	762	143	74
68	Aug 11, '25	A major cut to the funding of the National Science Foundation would be very bad for the future of the US.	1.0×	119k	709	103	64
69	Apr 21, '19	Inman is always thought-provoking.	1.0×	0	175	37	21
70	Oct 10, '25	Some generous companies in Toronto are funding three lectures on AI safety by Owain Evans on Nov 10, 11, 12. Tickets are $10 and are available at	1.0×	117k	720	103	193
71	Apr 24, '20	This is really nice work	0.9×	0	191	30	12
72	Jun 14, '21	Canada prides itself on being a more caring society than the US and is publicly apologetic about its past abuses. So why is it ignoring current torture in its prisons?	0.9×	0	181	29	3
73	May 1, '23	@SpirosMargaris Maybe I over-reacted. When I read it I thought it could easily be interpreted as implying that I left so that I could criticize Google and that is certainly not the	0.9×	103k	473	25	5
74	May 4, '23	@MelMitchell1 I am a cognitive scientist.	0.8×	101k	1.4k	59	30
75	Feb 14, '19	@ilyasut This should allow unicorns in silicon valley to produce better English.	0.8×	0	189	24	5
76	Mar 5, '21	@MIT_CSAIL @StackOverflow Turning philosophy into science %Too short	0.8×	0	187	16	4
77	Nov 27, '23	@ylecun @vkhosla That is a very ambitious claim. My guess is that you base it on your idea that the errors of an autoregressive model must increase as the output gets longer. This	0.7×	88k	382	21	80
78	Oct 11, '23	@VayuRobotics is designing light, low-speed robots for local deliveries. These robots have about 1% of the kinetic energy of a 50 mph car and a much shorter stopping distance, whic	0.7×	85k	237	17	9
79	Nov 25, '23	@AndrewYNg There is a big difference between my best bet (which is that we are a passing phase of evolution) and a considered estimate of the probability of extinction used for mak	0.7×	85k	317	14	36
80	Nov 3, '23	@pmddomingos Yes. It would be crazy not to consider this possibility. Have you seriously considered the possibility it might wipe us all out and if so what probability do you put o	0.7×	78k	351	17	31
81	Oct 11, '23	It seems to me that @VayuRobotics is addressing a great market niche and their approach has fewer ethical problems than many other AI applications. I look forward to working with @	0.6×	75k	232	16	10
82	Jun 6, '22	I tried HSBC chat. Here's what they said: I’ll transfer you to an agent now. It could take up to 6 hours to get connected because our agents are helping other customers like you. P	0.6×	0	127	12	4
83	Mar 26, '20	@JeffDean in another few days the corpses will outnumber the lies.	0.6×	0	135	20	1
84	May 1, '23	@jackfarrington NYT is definitely not garbage. It has great reporters. I was just correcting a nuance.	0.6×	68k	591	13	0
85	Nov 27, '23	People confabulate all the time (especially when talking about LLMs). Recent work on skill-mix by al. et. Sanjeev Arora is a pretty convincing demonstration that GPT4 has a combina	0.5×	59k	213	9	74
86	Nov 2, '23	@pmddomingos There is so much wrong with that argument that I do not know where to start. Maybe just look at how smart AI was 10 years ago and how smart it is now. Then project tha	0.5×	57k	690	21	23
87	Nov 27, '23	@yoavgo you do not understand how probabilities work. I put a big weight on Yann's opinion. He puts zero weight on mine.	0.5×	56k	326	9	12
88	Nov 1, '23	@jeremyphoward Risk management of things that are totally novel and for which you have zero experience and little understanding is very different from normal risk management. In th	0.4×	53k	396	19	20
89	Sep 10, '21	@pmddomingos Of course it was the most successful funder. It had by far the most money to spend. The question is would that taxpayer money have been better spent if it had not been	0.4×	0	114	4	1
90	Nov 27, '23	When the sun is low and you are looking towards the sun across the water, the nearside of a steep wave looks black. So how could we get a pattern of waves that alternate between be	0.4×	49k	115	4	2
91	Oct 31, '23	@MasoudMaani IMO the public perception that Google is not making much progress in AI is wrong. They invented transformers and diffusion models. The perception comes from the fact t	0.4×	47k	523	38	32
92	Nov 27, '23	@pmddomingos AI winter !!!!????	0.4×	46k	225	9	11
93	Oct 31, '23	@_arohan_ This is a very good point. It is the reason why people will continue to develop AI.	0.3×	41k	136	1	2
94	Jun 15, '24	@ESYudkowsky LeCun p(doom) = 0.001; Yudkowsky p(doom) = .999; Ensemble p(doom) = 0.5;	0.3×	41k	216	10	28
95	May 5, '23	@jeffclune There is so much possible benefit that I think we should continue to develop it but also put comparable resources into making sure its safe.	0.3×	39k	352	29	16
96	Jun 15, '24	@pmddomingos If you did that you might end up saying things like "Imagine if you talked by picking the next word from your personal probability distribution over words given the co	0.3×	36k	356	14	23
97	Oct 31, '23	@andywalters Yes, I was wrong about the time scale, but AI is already comparable with radiologists for several types of images. It seems likely that in a few years it will routinel	0.2×	29k	371	7	20
98	Nov 27, '23	@pmddomingos and who determines the sub-goals?	0.2×	26k	93	4	8
99	Oct 31, '23	@Antialcidas so far	0.2×	23k	180	1	4
100	Mar 15, '23	@OriolVinyalsML I believe that not referencing our paper was not plagiarism because I wrote the abstract. What had not occurred to me at the time was that the cumbersome ensemble o	0.1×	18k	120	7	7

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