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…

- Geoffrey Hinton

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

- Geoffrey Hinton

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.

- Geoffrey Hinton

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…

- Geoffrey Hinton

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…

- Geoffrey Hinton

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…

- Geoffrey Hinton

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…

- Geoffrey Hinton

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

- Geoffrey Hinton

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.

- Geoffrey Hinton