As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe 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 Everyt

What is artificial intelligence? Should we embrace it or fear it? Advances in AI and machine learning have been rapid, and some would say, unchecked.   A 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Geoffrey Hinton, sheds some light on both the beautiful and dangerous aspects of AI. Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneer in the field of

“How could I be sure it wasn’t a spoof call?” 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton received the phone call from Stockholm at around 2am in a hotel room in California, and multiple Swedish accents helped reassure him that his Nobel Prize in Physics was real. Greatly surprised, he talks to the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith a

This episode of The Naked Scientists marks the return of a brand news series of Titans of Science, where some of the movers and shakers of the scientific and technological world help us to unpick a big problem. Kicking us off is the AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, with a fascinating insight into artificial intelligence, ho

Geoff Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" returns to the Robot Brains with Pieter Abeel to discuss quitting Google to warn of AI risks. Geoff and Peter discuss whether AI is smarter than people, the role of regulation, fusing human and artificial intelligence, and what Geoff's next steps will be. Subscribe to the Robot Brain

Last week, we were honored to have Professor Geoff Hinton join the show for a wide-ranging discussion inspired by insights gleaned from Hinton’s journey in academia, as well as past 10 years with Google Brain. The episode covers how existing neural networks and backpropagation models operate differently than how the br