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In Machines We Trust: A conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Live)

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The Scary Argument for Better Learning

Digital computers can pack more information into only a few connections. When one of them learns anything, all the others know it. And people can't do that. If I learn a whole lot of stuff about quantum mechanics, and I want you to know all that stuff about quantum Mechanics, it's a long and painful process of getting you to understand it. We're defining a trillion as only a few. Okay. So these digital computers are better at learning than humans, which itself is a huge claim. But then you also argue that that's something that we should be scared of. Could you take us through that step of the argument? Yeah,. Let me give you a separate piece of the

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