” 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. “
” We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything. “
” In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. “
” Deep learning is already working in Google search and in image search, it allows you to image-search a term like ‘hug.’ It’s used to getting you Smart Replies to your Gmail. It’s in speech and vision. It will soon be used in machine translation, I believe. “
” 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. “
” In a sensibly organised society, if you improve productivity, there is room for everybody to benefit. “
” I had a stormy graduate career, where every week we would have a shouting match. I kept doing deals where I would say, ‘Okay, let me do neural nets for another six months, and I will prove to you they work.’ At the end of the six months, I would say, ‘Yeah, but I am almost there. Give me another six months. “
” Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don’t get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits. “
” The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does. Each time there’s a new revelation from Snowden, you realise the extent of it. “
” I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I’d be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots. “
” All you need is lots and lots of data and lots of information about what the right answer is, and you’ll be able to train a big neural net to do what you want. “
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