Forbes: AI Shake-Up As Prominent AI Guru Proposes Mind-Bending “Mortal Computers” Which Also Gets AI Ethics And AI Law Dug In

Here’s something that you probably hadn’t been yet mulling over: Mortal computers.

But maybe you should be.

The heady topic came up at the recent and altogether quite prominent annual conference on AI that is especially focused on the advent of neural networks and machine learning, namely the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (known by insiders as NeurIPS). Invited keynote speaker and a considered longtime AI guru Geoffrey Hinton made the intriguing and perhaps controversial contention that we should be thinking about computers in a mortal and immortal context.

I’ll be addressing the notable assertion and doing so in two ways that at first won’t necessarily seem connected though after a bit of added elucidation they will become more clearly related to each other as to the mortal versus immortal contentions

The two topics are:

1) Integrally binding together both hardware and software for AI mechanizations rather than having them as distinct and separate allies

2) Transferring or distilling of machine learning formulations from one AI model to another that does so without requiring nor necessarily desiring (or even feasibly otherwise possible) a straight ahead full purebred copying

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