Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, and Nobel laureate in physics, known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title “the Godfather of AI”.

Hinton is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the many risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.  In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.

Source: Wikipedia

Why The "Godfather of AI" Now Fears His Own Creation
Curt Jaimungal – 31/01/2025 (32:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDE9DjpcSdI&t=4s

Professor Geoffrey Hinton, a prominent figure in AI and 2024 Nobel Prize recipient, discusses the urgent risks posed by rapid AI advancements in today’s episode of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal.

Timestamps:
00:00 The Existential Threat of AI

01:25 The Speed of AI Development

07:11 The Nature of Subjective Experience

14:18 Consciousness vs Self-Consciousness

23:36 The Misunderstanding of Mental States

29:19 The Chinese Room Argument

30:47 The Rise of AI in China

37:18 The Future of AI Development

40:00 The Societal Impact of AI

47:02 Understanding and Intelligence

1:00:47 Predictions on Subjective Experience

1:05:45 The Future Landscape of AI

1:10:14 Reflections on Recognition and Impact

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Demis Hassabis

Sir Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs, and a UK Government AI Adviser. In 2024, Hassabis and John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AI research contributions for protein structure prediction.

Hassabis is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and has won many prestigious awards for his research work including the Breakthrough Prize, the Canada Gairdner International Award, and the Lasker Award. In 2017 he was appointed a CBE and listed in the Time 100 most influential people list. In 2024 he was knighted for services to AI.

Source: Wikipedia

Unreasonably Effective AI with Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMind (52:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZybROKrj2Q

It has been a few years since Google DeepMind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis, and Professor Hannah Fry caught up. In that time, the world has caught on to artificial intelligence—in a big way. Listen as they discuss the recent explosion of interest in AI, what Demis means when he describes chatbots as ‘unreasonably effective’, and the unexpected emergence of capabilities like conceptual understanding and abstraction in recent generative models.

Demis and Hannah also explore the need for rigorous AI safety measures, the importance of responsible AI development, and what he hopes for as we move closer towards artificial general intelligence.

Timecodes

00:00 Introduction

03:22 Explosion of AI

04:28 Unreasonably effective AI

08:40 Overhyped or under hyped AI

10:58 Gemini and Project Astra

15:40 Benchmarks

18:50 Engine room of Google

26:00 Shifting expectations of this technology

28:16 Open source

33:00 Regulation

38:00 The royal princes of the past

43:10 Avengers assemble

45:34 Peer into the mysteries of the universe

49:58 Conclusion

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics, best known for popularizing ideas related to friendly artificial intelligence.

He is the founder of and a research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. His work on the prospect of a runaway intelligence explosion influenced philosopher Nick Bostrom’s 2014 book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.

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Amarda Shehu

Shehu is an accomplished administrator, teacher, and scholar. She currently serves as George Mason’s Inaugural VP and Chief AI Officer in which capacity she also continues to provide leadership for the Institute of Digital InnovAtion (IDIA) for which she served as Associate Vice President for Research during 2022 and 2024.

Shehu also serves as an Associate Dean for AI Innovation in the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), where she is also a tenured Professor in the Department of Computer Science.

Source: CEC webpage

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