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Episode 1 – The connectionists

Episode 1 – The connectionists

FromBlack Box


Episode 1 – The connectionists

FromBlack Box

ratings:
Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Mar 4, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up 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
Released:
Mar 4, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (8)

At some point in the past few years, humanity collided with a new kind of intelligence. And things are getting strange. People are being accused of crimes by algorithms; falling in love with digital beings; pioneering new ways to fight old diseases; turning to machines for comfort in their worst moments, and using artificial intelligence to commit - and hide from - terrible crimes. The Guardian’s Michael Safi investigates the story of a technology so complex that its own creators have no idea what it is thinking, and captures a snapshot of the era when people first made contact with AI