Interview with Geoffrey Hinton

I am studying the interview with Geoffrey Hinton and I am left in awe!

“...I think the people who thought that thoughts were symbolic expressions just made a huge mistake. What comes in is a string of words, and what comes out is a string of words.
And because of that, strings of words are the obvious way to represent things. So they thought what must be in between was a string of words, or something like a string of words. And I think what’s in between is nothing like a string of words. I think the idea that thoughts must be in some kind of language is as silly as the idea that understanding the layout of a spatial scene must be in pixels, pixels come in. And so I think thoughts are just these great big vectors, and that big vectors have causal powers…They cause other big vectors, and that’s utterly unlike the standard AI view that thoughts are symbolic expressions.“

Intellectually as intoxicating as when I studied the dialogues of Plato and Aristotle about ideas in my youth. Whether it is better to focus on the table or the tableness. Or later in IT analysis, whether it is sensible to start modelling from the class or to derive from the object that is its instance. It’s just even better. That person must be suffering. Being a paradigm ahead of the others.

If anyone here on FB understands what I’m talking about, I invite them for a beer!

I am studying the interview with Geoffrey Hinton and I am left in awe! “...I think the people who thought that thoughts were…

Posted by IT Analytik on 10 October 2017