[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] LCTG videos 2024 Nobel Physics Laureates

[Peter Albin]

References below for the two videos shown at the meeting

Peter

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Emergence, dynamics, and behaviour - John Hopfield (2016) -- 40 min

A talk given at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute Symposium to 
celebrate the work of Professor Sir David MacKay FRS at Cambridge 
University, Cambridge UK
Audience: physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and neurobiologists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTurUGqD_Lo

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The Godfather in Conversation: Why Geoffrey Hinton is worried about the 
future of AI (2023) -- 46 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cW4Gcn5WY

 From the University of Toronto 
<https://www.utoronto.ca/news/godfather-conversation-why-geoffrey-hinton-worried-about-future-ai>:

“It’s a time of huge uncertainty,” says Geoffrey Hinton from the living 
room of his home in London. “Nobody really knows what’s going to happen 
… I’m just sounding the alarm.”

In The Godfather in Conversation, the cognitive psychologist and 
computer scientist ‘known as the Godfather of AI’ explains why, after a 
lifetime spent developing a type of artificial intelligence known as 
deep learning, he is suddenly warning about existential threats to 
humanity.

A University of Toronto University Professor Emeritus, Hinton explains 
how neural nets work, the role he and others played in developing them 
and why the kind of digital intelligence that powers ChatGPT and 
Google’s PaLM may hold an unexpected advantage over our own. And he lays 
out his concerns about how the world could lose control of a technology 
that, paradoxically, also promises to unleash huge benefits – from 
treating diseases to combatting climate change.

“Maybe when they become smarter than us, we’ll be able to keep them 
benevolent and we will be able to keep them caring much more about 
people than they care about themselves – unlike people,” Hinton says.

“But maybe not.”

Hinton also offers advice to young researchers entering the field – 
including students at U of T, where the responsible and ethical 
development of AI is supported by the Schwartz Reisman Institute for 
Technology and Society and many other research initiatives.

“Look at how many people are working on making these things better and 
how many people are working on preventing them from getting out of 
control,” Hinton says, noting the ratio is tilted heavily toward the 
former, particularly at big tech companies.

“Where could you make the most impact?”
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