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
You can listen to Black Box here.
Thanks to Michael Wooldridge – his book is called The Road to Conscious Machines.
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