>You will find his lectures to be very entertaining and easy to understand, being a psychologist whose desire is to make a computer operate like a human brain,

>You will find his lectures to be very entertaining and easy to understand, being a psychologist whose desire is to make a computer operate like a human brain, he's more interested in how the brain actually works, than hacking ML code. > >Hinton describes backprop, why he invented it, and exactly how it emulates the way the human brain works. Of course, basically no actual neuroscientists or cognitive scientists think the brain actually works via supervised backpropagation. So he actually has a bit of a holy war going on with the people who properly work on human learning rather than machine learning.