[HN Gopher] Press Conference: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel P...
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Press Conference: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics
2024 [video]
Author : moose44
Score : 123 points
Date : 2024-10-09 19:26 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| stonethrowaway wrote:
| This is what clickbait-by-design looks like. The headline is,
| minor omission aside that Ilya was Hinton's student, the entire
| article.
|
| 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.
|
| So please help keep HN relatively drama/snide free, and flag this
| article.
|
| Special thanks to TechCrunch for keeping the quality of their
| articles high. We couldn't have done it without you.
| tourist123 wrote:
| I think it's unfair to call this drama/snide - it seems pretty
| justified for academics like Geoffrey Hinton to be upset that a
| non-profit research lab called _Open_ AI has been converted to
| a for-profit company + billions of stock for sama. Seems like a
| pretty good use of time to talked about how messed up that is.
| 31337Logic wrote:
| What does it matter that Ilya was Geoffrey's student?
|
| I will not flag this. Indeed, quite the opposite - I upvoted.
|
| Is it the most scholarly article ever written? Of course not,
| but that's no reason to flag. I think Sam A. is wholly
| deserving of all the negative press of late. Articles like this
| keep the rational debate alive. We're proof of that, right now.
| freehorse wrote:
| Full interview:
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| https://youtu.be/H7DgMFqrON0
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| The particular mention is at ~3:32.
|
| 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 "I'm particularly proud of the fact that
| one of my students fired Sam Altman" is at ~3:32 of the video in
| the current link.
| dang wrote:
| We changed the URL from https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/09/after-
| winning-nobel-for-fo..., which cherry-picks a single detail
| (doubtless the most sensational) to the video itself.
|
| With cases like this, it's helpful to remember that we're trying
| to optimize HN for one thing, intellectual curiosity [1].
| Remembering that often turns borderline calls into easy ones.
|
| [1]
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
| stonethrowaway wrote:
| Thank you dang. I'll take the downvotes/flags but it really
| would be beneficial if HN "understood" that we are better off
| removing sensationalism rather than playing directly into the
| bait of it.
| ghayes wrote:
| Geoffrey Hinton had an excellent series on neural networks from
| 2011 for Coursera available here
| https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYWf6...
| 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.
| asadm wrote:
| mentioning sama, so petty.
| OutOfHere wrote:
| To give credit where it is due, it is Sam, not Ilya, that brought
| ChatGPT and its API to the people.
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