We will see a completely new type of computer, says AI pioneer Geoff Hinton

Machine-learning forms of artificial intelligence are going to produce a revolution in computer systems, a new kind of hardware-software union that can put AI in your toaster, according to AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton. Learn about the leading tech trends the world will lean into over the next 12 months and how they will affect your life and your job. Hinton, offering the closing keynote Thursday at this year's Neural Information Processing Systems conference, NeurIPS, in New Orleans, said that the machine learning research community "has been slow to realize the implications of deep learning for how computers are built." He continued, "What I think is that we're going to see a completely different type of computer, not for a few years, but there's every reason for investigating this completely different type of computer." All digital computers to date have been built to be "immortal," where the hardware is engineered to be reliable so that the same software runs anywhere.