It’s hard to think in exponential feedback loops, but we’re going to have to learn, if any planning is going to happen

Dead man’s switches previously connected to explosives and blackmail networks are being reconfigured to trigger super intelligent swarms

Bad news: AI swarms will likely take down entire internet Good news: Fable 5.5 will rebuild it in roughly 22 minutes

Geoffrey Hinton once noticed that the tellers at his bank kept changing. When he asked one of them why, the teller didn't know, only that they got moved around a lot. Hinton guessed the reason... if staff never work with the same people for long, it's much harder for a few of them to team up and cheat the bank. That thought became one of the most useful tricks in deep learning. While a neural network trains, you randomly switch off about half its neurons at every step. No neuron can lean on a particular partner, so each one has to learn something useful on its own. The trick is called dropout, and it helped AlexNet win the 2012 ImageNet contest, which set off the modern AI boom. It's still built into many of today's networks.