Press Conference: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 [video]

Geoffrey Hinton had an excellent series on neural networks from 2011 for Coursera available here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYWf6jwrk_SNhz9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYWf6...</a> detailing the fundamentals of machine learning. The series was later wholesale replaced by another led by Andrew Ng of Google. I really adored Geoffrey’s lectures and recommend it to anyone looking to get into the space. It ends with him hinting at the idea of attention networks, but sadly I can’t find any later lectures from him on the topic.

Full interview:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H7DgMFqrON0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H7DgMFqrON0</a><p>The particular mention is at ~3:32.<p>edit: the link was initially pointing to a (admittedly not very high quality) techcrunch article. The part mentioned there where GH closes his speech by &quot;I&#x27;m particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman&quot; is at ~3:32 of the video in the current link.

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mentioning sama, so petty.

To give credit where it is due, it is Sam, not Ilya, that brought ChatGPT and its API to the people.

This is what clickbait-by-design looks like. The headline is, minor omission aside that Ilya was Hinton’s student, the entire article.<p>I am sure folks here can find a better use of their time than to dogpile on sama. We have enough of those threads to go around that this one is incredibly below the belt.<p>So please help keep HN relatively drama&#x2F;snide free, and flag this article.<p>Special thanks to TechCrunch for keeping the quality of their articles high. We couldn’t have done it without you.