Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton

Why HN readers recommended it

HN readers recommend it as an intuitive explanation of neural networks that shifts how people think about AI and language.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Royal Institution

Topic

AI and neural networks

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2025–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Geoffrey Hinton's recent lecture at the Royal Institute[1] is a fascinating watch. His assertion that human use of language being exactly analogous to neural networks with back-propagation really made me think about what LLMs might be able to do, and indeed, what happens in me …

• It was a Royal Institution public lecture, "Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton", [VIDEO] Ultimately I somehwat disagreed with some of Hintons points in this talk, and after some thought I came up with specific reasons/doubts, and yet at …

• I muck about on HN and get ~80% of my video content on youtube. I think it's great overall. The rest ~5% twitter, 0% TV although I have one sitting switched off with a £174 bbc fee. 5% pirated maybe. If you go with the …