Morning Edition · Sunday, July 5, 2026Published at 6:42 AM EDT · New York

Hinton Argues AI Already Learns More Efficiently Than the Human Brain

The claim, from one of deep learning's founders, is about learning efficiency, not total capacity.

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the researchers whose work underpins modern deep learning, argues that AI systems already learn more efficiently than the human brain, even though the brain has roughly a hundred times more neural connections, accord…