Geoffrey Hinton on Artificial Intelligence

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk interviews Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "godfather of AI," to discuss the evolution and future of artificial intelligence. Hinton explains the shift from logic-based AI to neural networks, emphasizing the importance of intuition and perception over deliberate reasoning. He details how neural networks learn through layers of feature detection, using the example of identifying birds in images, and clarifies the role of backpropagation in efficient learning. The conversation explores the similarities between AI learning mechanisms and the human brain, addressing critiques of AI as merely "stochastic parrots" and discussing the potential for AI to generate its own training data through reasoning. Hinton also touches on the limitations of current AI models and the need for new architectures and engineering advances to achieve further progress.