Geoffrey Hinton Quotes
Most people in AI, particularly the younger ones, now believe that if you want a system that has a lot of knowledge in, like an amount of knowledge that would take millions of bits to quantify, the only way to get a good system with all that knowledge in it is to make it learn it. You are not going to be able to put it in by hand.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Everything I do is the environment.
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The good news is that the Paris Agreement is not just a bilateral agreement between the United States and some other country. You have 200 countries who came together. It's an international agreement.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.
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No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
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Most people in AI, particularly the younger ones, now believe that if you want a system that has a lot of knowledge in, like an amount of knowledge that would take millions of bits to quantify, the only way to get a good system with all that knowledge in it is to make it learn it. You are not going to be able to put it in by hand.
