Jeff Hinton came along in 1972 as a graduate student in Edinburgh. His idea was that the computer would gradually sort out how to make sense of it all, like a human brain. It was widely dismissed as just a crazy idea that was never going to work. But his only evidence was that basically this is how the human brain worked.
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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