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Is AI Anxiety Overblown? (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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The Effect of Backward Propagation on Evolution

Jeffrey Hinton invented what he calls forward propagation and back propagation. And there's some calculus that kind of tells you like how much to tweet each neuron to get the right answer. So, it makes sense when you think about it that way that the machine is in a certain sense guiding its own evolution by machine basically I guess but no wonder we don't totally get it now.

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