Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note
We are currently in the grip of another outbreak of exuberance triggered by “Generative AI” – chatbots, large language models and other exotic artefacts enabled by massive deployment of machine learning – which the industry now regards as the future for which it is busily tooling up.
Which is why Hinton’s intervention was so significant. For he is the guy whose research unlocked the technology that is now loose in the world, for good or ill. And that’s a pretty compelling reason to sit up and pay attention. , the mathematician and writer whose idea of a “fourth dimension” became a staple of science fiction and wound up in the Marvel superhero movies of the 2010s. And his cousin, the nuclear physicist Joan Hinton, was one of the few women to work on the wartime Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, which produced the first atomic bomb.
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