Geoff Hinton
The Robot Brains Podcast
Twitter Q&A with Geoff Hinton
- Published
- June 8, 2022
- Duration
- 43:32
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 10, 2026
Discusses Last week, we were honored to have Professor Geoff Hinton join the show for a wide-ranging discussio…
Summary
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 brain actually works; the AlexNet/Image…
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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 brain actually works; the AlexNet/ImageNet breakthrough moment; the purpose of sleep; and why it’s better to grow our computers than manufacture them.As you might recall, we also gav