We’ve all heard of Geoff Hinton recently and publicly leaving Google Brain to bring awareness to A.I. risk. Something lost in that hoopla is the specific moment when he changed his mind about AI and the implications that creates. But first, let’s establish what Geoff Hinton has been trying to figure out in the first place.
Geoff Hinton has been trying to understand the human brain for decades. It turned out that artificial neural networks were a promising tool for studying how the brain learns. While relatively little progress has been made in…
