Yoshua Bengio

So if somebody says, oh, what you're doing is bad, you don't like it.

Yeah, but I'm stubborn.

And in the same way that in the 2000s, I continued on my path to develop deep learning in spite of most of the community saying, oh, neural nets, that's finished.

I think now I see a change.

My colleagues are less skeptical.

They're like more agnostic rather than negative.

Because we're having those discussions, it just takes time for people to start digesting the underlying rational arguments, but also the emotional currents that are behind the reactions we would normally have.

I would say work on the beautiful human being that you can become.

I think that that part of ourselves will persist even if machines can do most of the jobs.

What part?

The part of us that

loves and accepts to be loved and takes responsibility and feels good about contributing to each other and our collective well-being and our friends, our family,

I feel for humanity more than ever because I've realized we are in the same boat and we could all lose, but it is really this human thing.

And I don't know if, you know, machines will have

these things in the future.

But for certain, we do.

And there will be jobs where we want to have people.

If I'm in a hospital, I want a human being to hold my hand while I'm anxious or in pain.

The human touch is going to, I think,

take more and more value as the other skills become more and more automated.