Black Box episode one: The connectionists - podcast

This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don't truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences - two black boxes - human and artificial. And it's already having profound consequences

You can listen to Black Box here.

Thanks to Michael Wooldridge - his book is called The Road to Conscious Machines.