Dan Piponi on Nostr: Back in the 90s when I was a PhD student at King's College, London, John G Taylor ...

Back in the 90s when I was a PhD student at King's College, London, John G Taylor (ie. the erstwhile professor of black holes, quantum gravity, and spoon-bending) created a neural network group in the mathematics department. I'd chat with him and he used to regularly tell me things like "neural networks becoming conscious is just around the corner". I never really took him seriously...