Black Box

Episode one – The connectionists

Episode one – The connectionists

Black Box


Published: 4 March 2024 at 05:00 Europe/London

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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

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