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AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
Source: The Guardian · Published
Nobel winner warns the tech 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…
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