Black Box: the connectionists – episode 2

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:08.8	Today on Black Box, the story of a man who wanted to understand the brain, and ended up building
0:15.4	something just as mysterious.
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1:01.4	The first time, Jeffrey Hinton,
1:03.6	ran into a scientific problem in the world
1:05.7	that he couldn't explain.
1:07.4	He was very young.
1:14.7	No. plane. He was very young. So I remember when I was about five, coming home from school on a bus.
1:20.7	It was an old bus with an engine that wasn't very well mounted, so the engine made the whole
1:24.9	bus vibrate. And I was sitting on a seat that had some tough velvet-like material on it.
1:32.9	And the seat sloped downwards towards the back.
1:37.6	And I put an penny, an old British penny, on the seat.
1:42.3	Instead of sliding down the seat in the direction that gravity
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