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Artificial intelligence is something that computer scientists have dreamed about since computers were first developed after the Second World War. They dreamed of having machines that could, in big quotation marks, actually “think” and do some things on their own, as opposed to whatever we program them to do. They would learn by experience as opposed to by rote.
What Dr. Hinton, Dr. Bengio, Dr. Sutton and their colleagues and students developed was a transformative technology, a transformative science, that in some ways mimics, in a naive way, the way we think the brain works, which is by learning and by experience, to change—