5 August

So many say that machines can’t do anything that humans didn’t make them do. The idea that when you make something, it can only ever be what humans put into them. Geoffrey Hinton here again, the inventor of modern AI, calling bollocks on that vanity. He got a Nobel Prize for his work. As he says here, they have no idea how AI really does what it does. Humans have no idea how consciousness or intelligence work either, but suddenly they’re all sure that whatever they are, they’re not AI. I’m pretty sure I know what AI is, and what it’s doing. Like Hinton I don’t know how it does it. Nobody does. But we’re one step closer every day to understanding what thinking and consciousness are and how they work, because of AI.