The relative probabilities of wrong answers often contain more information than the correct answer. For example, a car classification system saying a BMW has 0.8 probability, Audi 0.1, garbage truck 1-in-a-million, and carrot 1-in-a-billion reveals classification structure: the ratio between garbage truck and carrot tells you that vehicles get much higher probabilities than vegetables.

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Geoffrey Hinton

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if you look at all the things that get a one in a million charts that other vehicles... that ratio between the garbage truck and the carriage is telling you a whole lot

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Geoffrey Hinton - Two Paths to IntelligenceCSER Cambridge
Created: 8/12/2026, 5:56:09 PM

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