FILE-Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI, speaks during day two of Collision 2023 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images)
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI,” is chiming in on artificial intelligence and what its increased development could mean for society.
AI’s effect on humans
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Geoffrey Hinton tells CBS in an interview that he projects a 10% to 20% risk that artificial intelligence might take control from humans.
“People haven’t got it yet, people haven’t understood what’s coming,” he told the news outlet.
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Hinton’s worries about AI align with other tech leaders including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, X-AI’s Elon Musk, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who have all expressed similar worries.
But the researcher claims these major companies are attempting to get less regulation for AI. Hinton also thinks AI companies should use more resources for safety research for the technology.
Who is Geoffrey Hinton?
The backstory:
Geoffrey Hinton creates machine learning algorithms and is best known as a pioneer in the field of deep learning as a mode of artificial intelligence. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that allow machine learning with artificial networks.
According to the Vector Institute, Hinton was one of the researchers who introduced an algorithm for learning word embeddings.
Hinton received his BA in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge in 1970 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978.
The University of Toronto noted that Hinton received the Association for Computing Machinery’s A.M. Turing Award in 2018 with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun for engineering breakthroughs related to computing
