[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Article which explains what we saw yesterday

[Donald Cooke]

I took the Minsky/Papert AI course at MIT in 1969, back in the "G.O.F.A.I."
days (Good-old-fashioned A.I.)

Minsky had just published his "Perceptrons" book, which he apologized to
the class for -- basically he was pissed at someone else getting Navy
research money. He admitted it was an idea worth pursuing.

But of course, the computers of the time were dismal and there was no WWW
to train a system so any research would have been pretty futile.


Don Cooke, Site 523, 603.219.9259


On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM Michael Alexander via LCTG <
lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:

> There were a lot of things to like in Hinton’s talk.  I especially
> appreciated his discussion of why AI made so little progress over many
> years and why the new approaches are working well, crediting hardware
> advances without which current AI algorithms would take forever to execute.
>
>     – Mike Alexander
>
>
> On Thursday, October 10, 2024, 2:51 PM, carllazarus--- via LCTG <
> lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:
>
> I second Harry’s thanks to Peter Albin for coming up with such a great
> last-minute fill-in.  John Hopfield’s talk went over my head, but I
> followed a lot of Geoffrey Hinton’s.  Hinton’s talk also got my thinking
> there may actually be an existential threat.  His idea that artificial
> intelligences could manipulate people so that we wouldn’t turn them off
> struck a chord.
>
>
>
> -- Carl
>
>
>
> *From:* LCTG <lctg-bounces+carllazarus=comcast.net at lists.toku.us> *On
> Behalf Of *Harry Forsdick via LCTG
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 10, 2024 1:50 PM
> *To:* LCTG at lists.toku.us
> *Cc:* Harry Forsdick <forsdick at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Article which explains what
> we saw yesterday
>
>
>
> Folks,
>
>
>
> I thought yesterday's videos about the two people who one the 2024 Nobel
> Prize in Physics were both amazing -- even though I had no idea what John
> Hopfield was talking about.  Geoffrey Hinton's talk was a lot more
> understandable -- probably because I have heard him before and have read up
> a lot more on the things for which he was awarded the prize.  In any case,
> here is an article I found today about the two contributions for which the
> Nobel prize was awarded:
>
>    -
>    https://www.perplexity.ai/page/hopfield-and-hinton-win-nobel-MeAlPhntSDyKO4ZfQVWqbA
>
> This came, interestingly enough from Perplexity.ai -- which is an
> excellent example of what can be done using the results of the two awardees.
>
>
>
> For reference, here are URLs to the two videos we saw yesterday:
>
>    - John Hopfield's Talk: Emergence, dynamics, and behaviour
>    <https://youtu.be/vTurUGqD_Lo?si=NtCv14B8qTivqUzL>
>    - Geoffrey Hinton's Talk: The Godfather in Conversation: Why Geoffrey
>    Hinton is worried about the future of AI
>    <https://youtu.be/-9cW4Gcn5WY?si=fYPnzS_d75Fn33SY>
>
> Thank you Peter Albin for finding these excellent videos for this last
> minute fill-in session of LCTG's weekly meeting.  For me, this is an
> example of why I try to attend these meetings each week.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> -- Harry
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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