Comment by nyrikki
1 day ago
A) Hinton is quite vocal about desiring to be an outsider/outlier as he says it is what lets him innovate.
B) He is also famous for his Doomerism, which often depends on machines doing "reasoning".
So...it's complicated, and we all suffer from confirmation bias.
This is sloppy, I was asking about scientific consensus from the perspective of the prior commenter as a conference-goer. I am not asking for opinions bordering on ad hominems of Hinton or any other scientist, please refrain from that style of misinformation.