This Canadian Genius Created Modern AI 

1:36 He mastered Python from quite an early age.

"Limited by technology of my time " - Howard Stark

It is interesting how his great-great-grandfather George Boole was ahead of his time when his work about Boolean Algebra was build on a basis of a model of how the mind works, which for him was logic. After around 150 years his direct descendant Geoffrey Hinton pursues the goal to understand how the mind works and then goes ahead of his time by revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence. The world did indeed catch up once, but he is still ahead as he keeps pushing the field with new work like Capsule Neural Networks.

Me: "my leg hurts, I've been standing for 2 hours" G. Hinton: "Excuse me?"

He even invented standing... amazing

I’m happy he’s alive to know he was right all along and computers caught up to his vision.

Deserves a standing ovation.

wow he worked for 20 years before the mainstream media recognized the value of his work

not only he invented AI, he was the pioneer of standing desks.

"Sometimes it takes years to become an overnight success"

He definitely deserved the Turing Award for his invaluable contribution to the field of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science..

A true scientist! Seeing the empirical evidence in his surroundings thus realizing it's possible. These are the people we don't have enough of and truly inspire me.

What a badass. Life treated him horribly by crippling him, and everyone doubted his work that would go on to be crucial in some of our life aspects today. Thank you, Geoff Hinton.

Wow, this video about the Canadian genius who created modern AI has aged incredibly well! Even four years later, the impact and significance of Geoffrey Hinton's work in machine learning and neural networks are still being felt and expanded upon by researchers and developers around the world. It's amazing to think how much progress has been made in AI and deep learning since this video was published, and Hinton's contributions continue to be at the forefront of these advancements. Thank you for sharing this insightful and informative video! - ChatGPT

What an amazing person. Not just before his time, but still being alive when the Dream is Realized.

Geoff is the great-great-grandson of George Boole (where "boolean" logic comes from, whose mathematical work is credited with laying the foundation of computers), quite fitting that Hinton is influential & pushing forward a field whose ancestor is fundamental to.

I had an honour to hear his talk once. Absolutely genius

Amazing! Highly motivational! But you can stand in a bus too!

I'm From Canada toronto, everyone from canada 🍁 thumbs up , feeling proud

So amazing!!! He seems so humble and down to earth..

I used to attend lectures in the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science department in 1983-1985. OMG. Jeff shook up the original (symbolic) AI gurus so bad......the fear and hate was palatable. Jeff never seemed to enjoy being hated, but he behaved like he was fearless because he was convinced he was right about neural nets and statistics/math. Always with an amazingly deadpan (British?) sense of humor. The thing that impressed me the most about Jeff at that time was even the very best "traditional AI" students, post grads and facility quietly, and sometimes not so quietly, took his side and helped to fight off the fierce but unconvincing criticism leveled at him at that time. While I could understand why Jeff would flee to Toronto because of the DARPA money thing, I often wondered if he simply tired of the abuse at CMU.

With respect. Citing Dr. Hinton as a Canadian pioneer in AI is likely a fair statement but, such a statement ignores those who came before him. Donald Olding Hebb was born on July 22, 1904 in Chester, Nova Scotia where he lived until his family moved to Dartmouth when he was 16. The term AI was not in use when Dr Hebb became interested in Neural Nets but it is undeniable, his work is foundational to Dr Hinton’s. The source for where Dr. Hebb's foundational thinking was, is difficult to know unless he wrote it down somewhere. Personally my reading suggests statistics. As a human mind scans and evaluates any particular body of data and finds some truth, they have mimicked Hebb's net. Personally I feel the term AI is a misnomer. If something is intelligent, it is intelligent, not artificial! Again, with respect to Dr. Hinton real talent, Canada can be proud of; Ken Bowd Layperson Canada. PS: my logic here is the product of a 1970’s era tv show called “Connections” by James Burke. (Google “connections PBS”).

So cool. I have gotten into programming neural nets and i'm Canadian. I didn't even know that this happened in my country!

Yoshua Bengio is also a Canadian Pioneer of AI. He was the supervisor for Ian Goodfellow, one of the top AI researchers in the world working at Google right now.

Geniuses are solving our problems for us. we appreciate them for their great job

"if you want to really understand something like the brain you have to build it first" EXACTLY how I look at it!

Feynman said it best." Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts" One man sticks to his beliefs.

I remember learning the computer programming language, Turing, at the University of Toronto, sweet memories!

character recognition was in the late 60's approximately, when postal services purchased from japan the zipcode recognizer thats already recognised the handwritten digits..

Actually, Geoffrey Hinton was born in the UK and studied for his first degree in the UK. His family are famous British engineers and mathematicians...

what a guy! self-belief and never doubting the convictions he had to keep going! amazing

Excelent, more of this kind of videos please!

Everybody else was wrong .. Respect !!

Glad to see someone standing up for what they believe in.

According to Jared who works at Porter Hospital in Littleton, CO they can hardwire into any ones brain to upload and download data 24/7. Jared works at Porter as a sleep specialist. These sleep studies are conducted on hotel rooms to make the experience comfortable and conducive to extracting data from patients who have sleep apnea and other sleeping disorders. If you want to take classes and graduate from a University with a PHD or doctorate you can. While you sleep your brain can be uploaded with all kinds of data and you can broaden your knowledge while you sleep. I have already designed alnd have several inventions and ideas that have been copyrighted. Look for news about these new technologies in the not to distant future.

"I didnt want to take military money" - next moment a military car is self-driving

Thank you so much RU-vid for recommending me this ❤️ Also thank you for making this video 💕

Respect him, He did not want to work for the Mafia.

"You just overfit and then regularize the hell out of it" (or whatever the precise phrase is) - absolutely one of those pearls

Thank you very much for this video! It really provides a great insight on the role of Hinton in the history of AI

Watching this after he resigned from Google

great video from Bloomberg :D !! where is part 2 ? :P

This documentary is awesome. As a cognitive psychology and computer science student this man is an inspiration

Every signal has a different heat, that's the key to self learning over time it learns these temperatures and remembers them

Imagine the monks who kept alive the tiny flame of knowledge through the dark centuries by storing and copying books

There is no mention of H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, under whom Jeff did his PhD, first at Edinborough and then Sussex University. Why not?

Great short version of the documentary!😊

He is indeed inspiring and he has impacted the world

His uncle was an renowned economist, his father was entomologist, Mt Everest is named after one of his relative in 1800s, his grandfather was Mathematician who laid foundation for comp sci. .... Guess apple doesn’t fall far from the tree after all.

Andrew Ng was born in and spent his early years in Britain as well.

A game changer no question! I'm glad my curiosity has appetite for info...

What an incredible and modest man.

Interesting. Great to see UofT and Toronto in video. You located Buffalo at wrong spot on map, however. It's on Lake Erie, not Lake Ontario.

This guy is awesome!

A great tool to create synergy between everyone's goals/ideals/purposes.

thank you sir

AI is accelerating and growing at such a remarkable pace. Who would’ve thought that two Canadian cities: Edmonton, AB and Toronto, ON, would end up being the epicentres and hubs for all things related to A.I & Machine Learning.

Awesome!

How satisfying is it for this interviewer to look back at this piece now in 2023?

Sir wasn't wrong he was just early ♥️

This man lot of sense of humour I Love that

Wow never thought I'd say this ,but SOMEONE PLEASE GET THIS MAN A HOVERBOARD!

Many years ago, I watched a TV programme where Geoff Hinton 'energetically ' debated John (Chinese Room) Searle over Artificial Intelligence. Very entertaining.

I love it when the music gets louder, fast-paced and drowns out the people being interviewed. It's how I learn

Hinton went from perceptron, to deep convolutional networks, to capsule networks, but he will end up with a network based on Graph Theory. W.T. Tutte is the little known genius - (another British transplant who found a home for research in Canada). Math grads from Waterloo know W.T. Tutte. He broke the Lorenz cipher to help win WWII. Alan Turing is a shadow compared to the towering intellect of W.T. Tutte.

Truly inspirational!

Amazing simply amazing persistence.

Thanks for changing my life Geoff.

Fed up of USA and went to Toronto 'the civilzed town '👍😂

Wow in very 1980s there were self driving vehicles!!

Creation under creations, incredible

"Something no One, and no Computer could ever have predicted."- Last Line of this video

There a bit more history behind the a.i field. Before it all started of they've used and build their own electronics. then the computer chip aka the cpu came, Programming language. The need for faster processing became an oddity from super computers which been very expensive and to exotic for most university to acces or purchase and transputers which could be anything from a cluster of dsp and cpu much to novel. So that stalled the field a bit of and the community that wither due to its less promising results and seriousness. It was then with the 32 bit cpu the pentium 2 and 3 special instruction set like SSE. Those chips and others which then fueled to build servers and gawd the mystery still is why it had not gotten of half way the eighties. Oh wait the ever expanding phone and mobile market. The market got more focus on the growing phone market to much with switch boards. But luckily together with that the data market also started to flourish in very small increment steps however it was enough to spur the thing that was called the world wide web to grow even bigger faster better. And here we are today some call it the rise of a.i but it was already there for decades. The only thing it needs is the next big thing to fuel and idea and build it as it was supposed to be just as the faster cpu did , servers , switch boards and the internet. Who knows maybe quantum computing is the next increment.

Thanks

Three words, perception, courasity and believe. I am watching it now. Hello world 👋😊. Great sir 👍

Very cool, but I’d love to hear the guy’s views on how we’re going to cope with having advanced AI among us. He clearly must have given it a lot of thought!

"There was just one problem. It didn't work very well."

He is so admirable in character.

Wow 😮I never heard of this man and I am Canadian. I am so glad to have found him now.

So this guy created neural network niiiiice love yout invention use it a lot

I'm taking a neural network class from this OG through Coursera.

such inspiring!

Great work

The worst part is people like him are ridiculed first, when they need the most support. That's the price they end up paying for being smarter than others

This aged well

A true inspiration

Great report.

The OG

You get yourself an exoskeleton, they are developed for people who work standing so they can stay standing but put the weight onto the exoskeleton instead of their own bones. ✌️ 💙

merci

Data is also key. Learning comes from accumulation of useful data.

I think His motivation is to get in a self driving car while having a sleep so he didn't have to sit and drive the car

Who build the brain? I am amazed at the design of the brain.

He is a nice funny guy.... He love his character..🤗🤗

There's a playlist on youtube about a deep learning introductory course. It's just amazing

"sort of relief that people finally came to their senses" , I wish kids playing fortnite saw this and get inspired

The godfather, the magician.

Great fan of his work 🙏

He seems to be a very brilliant man they never give up I admire that very much!

The man looks like MR heckles from friends