Google’s AI Wizard Unveils a New Twist on Neural Networks

Wired, 2017: "Google's Geoff Hinton helped catalyze the current AI boom and says he knows how to make machines smarter at understanding the world.

But Hinton now belittles the technology he helped bring to the world. “I think the way we’re doing computer vision is just wrong,” he says. “It works better than anything else at present but that doesn’t mean it’s right.”

In its place, Hinton has unveiled another “old” idea that might transform how computers see—and reshape AI. That’s important because computer vision is crucial to ideas such as self-driving cars, and having software that plays doctor...

Wired, 2017: "Google's Geoff Hinton helped catalyze the current AI boom and says he knows how to make machines smarter at understanding the world.

But Hinton now belittles the technology he helped bring to the world. “I think the way we’re doing computer vision is just wrong,” he says. “It works better than anything else at present but that doesn’t mean it’s right.”

In its place, Hinton has unveiled another “old” idea that might transform how computers see—and reshape AI. That’s important because computer vision is crucial to ideas such as self-driving cars, and having software that plays doctor...