Geoffrey Hinton: AI threat to the world may be more ‘urgent’ than climate change
Artificial intelligence may be a “more urgent” threat to humanity than climate change, artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” recently announced his departure from Alphabet after a decade at the company, saying he wanted to talk about the risks of the technology without affecting his former employer. Hinton’s work is considered essential in the development of modern artificial intelligence systems. In 1986, he wrote the important paper “Learning representations by back-propagating errors”, a…
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