Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton

The “godfather of AI”, who helped popularize backpropagation in 1986 and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

1947– · Wikipedia · Photo: Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. How AI guesses the next word

    How does a program that only guesses the next word write sentences people believe? The story starts with Betty Shannon guessing a sentence one letter at a time, and reaches a lawyer who handed a court six cases that never existed.