I think people need to understand that deep learning is making a lot of things, behind-the-scenes, much better. Deep learning is already working in G….

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology..

In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic ab….

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have….

As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock y….

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it..

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it..

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things..

You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and yo….

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end th….

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years..