Mortal Komputation: On Hinton’s argument for superhuman AI.
Last week in Cambridge was Hinton bonanza. He visited the university town where he was once an undergraduate in experimental psychology, and gave a series of back-to-back talks, Q&A sessions, interviews, dinners, etc. He was stopped on the street by random passers-by who recognised him from the lecture, students and postdocs asked to take a selfie with him after his packed lectures. Things are very different from the last time I met Hinton in Cambridge: I was a […]