2025-03-13
37 分钟The Economist.
So let's check the...
I've got a Yeti microphone, a great big one,
which should be good quality and it's set so that it should not pick up background noise.
Geoffrey Hinton has always wanted to understand how the human brain learns.
And that's because, well, I'll let him tell you.
What was the reason you got interested?
Why the brain?
Because that's how we work.
That's a bit like saying, why are you interested in people?
Everyone has their own reason, right?
Well, it was mainly to understand.
And I was a teenager, I wanted to understand how people worked.
And being a scientist,
it seemed to me that you're never going to understand that unless you understand how the brain works.
You'd think that this keen interest would have led him into a career in biology.
But instead, he took a different path.
into computer science.
In the mid 20th century,
computer scientists were working out how to replicate the human brain's complex interconnected networks of neurons in software.