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Press Conference: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 [video]

by moose44 on 10/9/24, 7:26 PM with 20 comments

• by ghayes on 10/9/24, 9:27 PM

  Geoffrey Hinton had an excellent series on neural networks from 2011 for Coursera available here https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYWf6... detailing the fundamentals of machine learning. The series was later wholesale replaced by another led by Andrew Ng of Google. I really adored Geoffrey’s lectures and recommend it to anyone looking to get into the space. It ends with him hinting at the idea of attention networks, but sadly I can’t find any later lectures from him on the topic.

• by freehorse on 10/9/24, 8:53 PM

  Full interview:

  https://youtu.be/H7DgMFqrON0

  The particular mention is at ~3:32.

  edit: the link was initially pointing to a (admittedly not very high quality) techcrunch article. The part mentioned there where GH closes his speech by "I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman" is at ~3:32 of the video in the current link.

• by dang on 10/9/24, 8:58 PM

  We changed the URL from https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/09/after-winning-nobel-for-fo..., which cherry-picks a single detail (doubtless the most sensational), to the video itself.

  With cases like this, it's helpful to remember that we're trying to optimize HN for one thing, intellectual curiosity [1]. Remembering that often turns borderline calls into easy ones.

  [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

• by asadm on 10/9/24, 10:10 PM

  mentioning sama, so petty.

• by OutOfHere on 10/9/24, 10:43 PM

  To give credit where it is due, it is Sam, not Ilya, that brought ChatGPT and its API to the people.

• by stonethrowaway on 10/9/24, 7:36 PM

  This is what clickbait-by-design looks like. The headline is, minor omission aside that Ilya was Hinton’s student, the entire article.

  I am sure folks here can find a better use of their time than to dogpile on sama. We have enough of those threads to go around that this one is incredibly below the belt.

  So please help keep HN relatively drama/snide free, and flag this article.

  Special thanks to TechCrunch for keeping the quality of their articles high. We couldn’t have done it without you.