Jeffrey Sachs has spent his life in pursuit of trying to understand how the brain works. The field of artificial intelligence was created in the late 50s by a small group of U.S. scientists. Their aim was to create a machine that could do anything the human brain could do. They embraced something they called symbolic AI, taking everything we know about the world and feeding it into a machine.
As the world begins to experiment with the power of artificial intelligence, a debate has begun about how to contain its risks. One of the sharpest and most urgent warnings has come from a man who helped invent the technology.
Cade Metz, a technology correspondent for The New York Times, speaks to Geoffrey Hinton, who many consider to be the godfather of A.I.
Guest: Cade Metz, a technology correspondent for The New York Times.
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