> be Geoffrey Hinton
> great-great-grandson of George Boole (yes, that Boole)
> bad back so bad you can't sit down, code standing up
> spend 40 years on neural networks while everyone calls them a dead end
> 1986: co-invent backpropagation, nobody cares for 26 years
> 2012: your student ships AlexNet, the field flips overnight
> Google buys your startup for $44M
> bet machines will get smarter than humans
> you're right
> wake up one day, realize you might've ended the > species
> walk away from Google to say it out loud
> 2024: Nobel Prize in Physics
> spend the press tour saying the thing you built is already conscious
> different game
The godfather of AI says it'll cause "massive unemployment."
so I started with the most replaceable employee: me.
Hinton: likely mass job loss - "terrible for society"
a smarter thing controlled by a dumber one? his count: "zero"
soon it'll out-reason us at everything
the skill already does the founder's job - finds the niche, builds it, ships it, scales it.
I didn't lose my job to AI. I handed it the whole company.