The Origins of Artificial Intelligence with Geoffrey Hinton

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**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:05)
Gary, you had the audacity to bring in a Nobel laureate, expert in AI, to tell us we're all going to die?

**Gary O'Reilly** (2:11)
Well, of course.

**Chuck Nice** (2:12)
Actually, all we had to do was ask AI.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:16)
Coming up, StarTalk Special Edition. How AI will be the death or the birth of civilization. Coming right up. Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now.
This is StarTalk Special Edition. Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist. And if it's Special Edition, it means we've got Gary O'Reilly.

**Gary O'Reilly** (2:47)
Hey, Neil.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:47)
Gary, how are you doing, man?

**Gary O'Reilly** (2:49)
I'm good.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:50)
Former soccer pro.

**Gary O'Reilly** (2:51)
Yes.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:51)
So, Chuck, always good to have you.

**Chuck Nice** (2:52)
Always a pleasure.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:53)
So, Gary, you and your team picked a topic for the ages today.

**Gary O'Reilly** (2:57)
Yeah, it's one of those things that we hear about it, we think we know about it, but let me put it to you this way. We are faced with the simple fact that AI at this point is-

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:08)
We're going to talk about AI today. We are.

**Gary O'Reilly** (3:10)
It's inescapable.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:11)
A deep dive.

**Gary O'Reilly** (3:12)
Oh, yeah.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:13)
Yes, go.

**Gary O'Reilly** (3:13)
Right. It was only a few years ago when we asked people how AI works, they'll say something along the lines of it utilizes deep learning neural networks.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:21)
That buzzword. They'll toss them out.

**Gary O'Reilly** (3:23)
They know them, but they don't know anything about them. So what does that really mean? We'll break down how AI works down to the bit and get into how far we think this is going to go from one of AI's founding architects.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:38)
Ooh.

**Gary O'Reilly** (3:38)
Yes. That's worthy of an ooh.

**Chuck Nice** (3:41)
Now we're talking.

**Gary O'Reilly** (3:43)
So if you would bring on our guest.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:44)
I'll be delighted to. We have with us Professor Geoffrey Hinton. Geoffrey, welcome to StarTalk.

**Geoffrey Hinton** (3:51)
Thank you for inviting me.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:53)
Yeah, you are a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist. I don't know anybody with that combo.

**Chuck Nice** (3:59)
Couldn't make up your mind, huh?

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (4:01)
Is that what that means? Yeah. Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. And you are OG AI.