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AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI

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Nobel winner who devised concept of neural network warns AI could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdown One of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a “doomer” about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks…

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    AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton says we may have been 'better off' without AI

    Humanity could be at a crossroads between a good or bad future, and AI is the single factor.

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    AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI

    Nobel winner who devised concept of neural network warns AI could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdown One of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the...

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