Google’s AI Guru Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains

People can’t explain how they work, for most of the things they do. I think we’re going to have to do it like you would for people: You just see how they perform, and if they repeatedly run into difficulties then you say they’re not so good. WIRED: You’ve said that thinking about how the brain works inspires your research on artificial neural networks. I think the brain isn’t concerned with squeezing a lot of knowledge into a few connections, it’s concerned with extracting knowledge quickly using lots of connections. Geoff Hinton Almost all of the computer systems we run neural nets on, even Google’s special hardware, use RAM.