AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: "Deep learning is going to be able to do everything"
The most striking part of this short MIT Technology Review interview with Geoffrey Hinton is his belief that deep learning will be able to "replicate all of human intelligence." "Deep learning is going to be able to do everything, but I do think there's going to have to be quite a few conceptual breakthroughs," says the artificial intelligence (AI) innovator. Regardless of whether AI will replicate human intelligence, it is having a significant impact across industries from semiconductors to ecommerce to agriculture, something that might not have been apparent as recently as a decade ago. These changes have meant that Hinton is having a harder time being contrarian: "My problem is I have these contrarian views and then five years later, they're mainstream," Hinton says. "Most of my contrarian views from the 1980s are now kind of broadly accepted. It's quite hard now to find people who disagree with them. So yeah, I've been sort of undermined in my contrarian views." I'd say the idea that deep learning can fully replicate human intelligence may be contrarian – I guess we'll have to wait five years or so to find out.