geoffrey hinton spent 50 years building the technology he now says could wipe us out. when he was asked what he would do differently, he didn't mention AI "I wish I spent more time with my wife." then he corrected the interviewer: two of his wives had died of cancer the video below is from The Diary of a CEO in 2025. it starts with his family tree. his great-great-grandfather george boole invented the logic computers run on, and his cousin joan hinton was a physicist at los alamos who "was very cross with them dropping the bomb" and moved to china then he gives his advice. if everyone says your idea is silly, "don't give up on that intuition." almost everyone said neural networks were crazy, he stuck with them anyway in 2012 he and two students built the network that started the deep learning boom. google bought their company for $44 million. in 2023 he left google so he could warn people about what it might become. in 2024 he won the Nobel Prize and then the host asks about regrets "I was kind of obsessed with work." his second wife "was very supportive of me spending a lot of time working." he says he didn't spend enough time with his children when they were little either "just cuz she's gone and I can't spend more time with her now" he thought he had time. "it was likely I would die before her," he says, "just cuz she was a woman and I was a man" who are you saving time for later?