Jimmy Ba, founding member of Elon Musk's xAI, redefines AI with deep neural networks

Within Elon Musk's xAI, Ba chips distant astatine nan big, nebulous extremity to "understand nan existent quality of nan universe." He's a erstwhile student of Geoffrey Hinton, popularly known arsenic nan Godfather of AI. Ba, portion of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List, has a inheritance successful heavy neural networks, a type of artificial-intelligence exemplary consisting of a layered web of artificial neurons that mimic pathways successful nan quality brain. At nan University of Toronto he is an adjunct professor astatine nan university's machine-learning group. He was besides a investigation chap astatine Meta, wherever he focused connected knowing really "attention-based" neural networks behaved. "The exertion disposable needs to see nan complexity of ethics, privacy, fairness, and bully versus evil," Ba said successful a 2020 TEDx Talk. "One time location will beryllium humanlike learning machines tin of knowing our taste norms and nan nuances successful our quality values. It will toggle shape our regular lives and our nine profoundly."

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