Yoshua Bengio

One person.

This is totally unrealistic.

This is not how it happens.

Even a team of people in some isolated place will not make it.

science moves by small steps thanks to the collaboration and community of a large number of people interacting and all the scientists who are expert in their field kind of know what is going on even in the industrial labs it's information flows and leaks and so on and the spirit of it is very different from the way science is painted in this movie

It's possible, but it's unlikely.

Unlikely.

It's not how it is done now.

It's not how I can foresee it in the foreseeable future.

But of course, I don't have a crystal ball.

And so who knows?

This is science fiction after all.

I think it's ominous that the lights went off during that discussion.

So the problem, again, one thing is the movie and you could imagine all kinds of science fiction.

The problem for me, maybe similar to the question about existential risk,

is that this kind of movie paints such a wrong picture of what is actual you know the actual science and how it's going on that that it can have unfortunate effects on people's understanding of current science and and so that's kind of sad

There's an important principle in research, which is diversity.

So in other words, research is exploration.

Research is exploration in the space of ideas.

And different people will focus on different directions.