Meet Geoffrey Hinton: The AI Genius Who Won the Nobel Prize And Now Fears His Own Creation

Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton - 3 Quarks Daily

Meet Geoffrey Hinton: The AI Genius Who Won the Nobel Prize And Now Fears His Own Creation

Quick Summary Geoffrey Hinton, hailed as the “Godfather of AI” and a recent Nobel laureate for his foundational work on neural networks, has issued a series of increasingly urgent warnings about the technology he helped create. He publicly left Google in 2023 to speak freely about the dangers, which he says range from immediate societal harms like misinformation and surveillance to the existential threat of uncontrollable superintelligent AI, ur…