Dr. Geoffrey Hinton gave speech at IITB convocation in 2021. The speech transcription is available here
Highlights of the speech:
- [fact] Hinton says he did not do well in college (Cambridge) and struggled.
- [advice] Perserverance is much more important than raw talent.
- Most of our ideas turn to be wrong.
- A lot commitment and hard work to discover why they’re wrong.
- [advice] You should always try to falsify your ideas. (Instead) Generally people try to prove other ideas wrong.
- Perserverance is really important especially when the experts tell you’re wrong.
- [advice] Ignore the advices from Seniors, Just do what seems right to you.
- Good ideas emerge from paradoxes (from Hinton’s experience).
- It is unacceptable for researchers, until they turn the paradoxes into wisdom.
- [fact] Idea of deep neural network can learn from large amount of data was considered silly.
- Yoshua bengio were told that there were no place for ML in the international conference.
- Yann LeCun’s paper was rejected at Vision conference.
- Alan turing and Von neuman didn’t believe that the neural network can mimic human brain computation.
- Noam Chomsky (linguist) opposed the idea of neural network as well.
- Scientific cult can’t survive long period of time.
- Intuition based on analogy is primary mode of our reasoning.
- Future of AI
- Going to see big impact in healthcare
- Can diagnose diabetic retinopathy (common in india). Save eyesight.
- Some discussion about Politics and standing for truth.