{"id":65210,"date":"2026-05-14T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65210"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:12:45","slug":"godfather-of-ai-if-you-sleep-well-tonight-you-may-not-have-understood-this-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65210","title":{"rendered":"Godfather of AI: &#8220;If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Geoffrey_Hinton.jpg\" alt=\"Geoffrey Hinton\" width=\"519\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Geoffrey_Hinton.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Geoffrey_Hinton-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This 47-minute lecture is the best thing I saw about AI in the last few months. It will definitely help you understand how it actually works and where it&#8217;s going. Geoffrey Hinton built the neural networks behind every AI alive, then quit Google to warn the world about it.<\/p>\n<p>The part nobody wanted to hear:<\/p>\n<p>AI is already developing abilities its creators didn&#8217;t intend<br \/>\nin most cognitive tasks it&#8217;s already ahead of us<br \/>\nthe question is no longer if it surpasses us but when<br \/>\nthe only decision left is which side of that line you&#8217;re on<\/p>\n<p>Right now the average person opens Claude, types something, gets an answer, closes the tab. They think they&#8217;re using AI. they&#8217;re using maybe 10% of it.<\/p>\n<p>I went through his entire lecture, built a practical system from what he was describing. 18 steps to actually use Claude the right way, with copy-paste prompts that work today. Full guide in the post below.<\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnatoliKopadze\/status\/2054609639325434057?s=20\">https:\/\/x.com\/AnatoliKopadze\/status\/2054609639325434057?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 47-minute lecture is the best thing I saw about AI in the last few months. It will definitely help you understand how it actually works and where it&#8217;s going. Geoffrey Hinton built the neural networks behind every AI alive, then quit Google to warn the world about it. The part nobody wanted to hear: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Godfather of AI: &#8220;If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65212,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65210\/revisions\/65212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}