WHAT I IT?
At the beginning of May 2023, an eminent, elderly British scientist lobbed a grenade into the febrile anthill of researchers and corporations currently obsessed with artificial intelligence or AI (aka, for the most part, a technology called machine learning).
WHY IMPORTANT
The scientist was Geoffrey Hinton, and the bombshell was the news that he was leaving Google, where he had been doing great work on machine learning for the last ten years because he wanted to be free to express his fears about where the technology, he had played a seminal role in founding was heading.
To say that this was big news would be an epic understatement.
