A biography for Geoffrey Hintonhasn’t been written yet.
“Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.”
“The pooling operation used in convolutional neural networks is a big mistake, and the fact that it works so well is a disaster.”
“I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better - and when that's closely related to how the brain works.”