Top 10 leadership quotes by godfather of AI 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.

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

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 the community will come around.

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.

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

In AI, the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better - and when that's closely related to how the brain works.

I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing.

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