Season 2 · Episode 3
Black Box: the connectionists – episode 2
This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works
Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates
March 4, 202439m 21s
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Show Notes
This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it’s already having profound consequences
Topics
AI (artificial intelligence)TechnologyScienceConsciousnessComputingHuman biologyNeurosciencePsychology