Cosmic Queries: The Space Race

Cosmic Queries: The Space Race

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The Origins of Artificial Intelligence with Geoffrey Hinton

How did we go from digital computers to AI seemingly everywhere? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly dive into the mechanics of thinking, how AI got its start, and what deep learning really means with cognitive and computer scientist, Nobel Laureate, and one of the a ...  Show more

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