Geoffrey Hinton
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But it's doing the reasoning using neural nets.
And now it can detect inconsistencies in what it believes.
This is what never happens with people who are in MAGA.
They're not worried by the inconsistencies in what they believe.
But if you are worried by inconsistencies in what you believe, you don't need any more external data.
You just need the stuff you believe and discover that it's inconsistent.
And so now you revise beliefs.
And that can make you a whole lot smarter.
And so I believe Germany is already starting to work like this.
I had a conversation a few years ago with Jeremy Sotavis about this.
All right.
And we both strongly believe that that's a way forward to get more data for language.
Right, people like Shakespeare.
Okay, there's a debate about that.
Certainly they'll get more intelligent than us, but it may be to do things that are very meaningful for us, they have to have experiences quite like our experiences.
So, for example, they're not subject to death in the same way we are.
If you're a digital program, you can always be recreated.
So in neural net, you just save the weights,
on a tape somewhere or in some DNA somewhere or whatever.
You can destroy all the computing hardware.