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“What do you think the chances are of AI wiping out humanity,” a reporter from the US network CBS News asked in March last year.A few weeks later, he had walked away from his job at Google and was giving interviews to media across the world, quickly becoming the poster-child for AI doomsayers.Hinton, a 76-year-old soft-spoken career academic, was born in London, raised in Bristol and went to the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh.
The Canadian government agreed to back his research, which attempted to replicate the functioning of the human brain by engineering artificial “neural networks”. Ilya Sutskever, who founded OpenAI, worked in Hinton’s team for years and has described the time as “critical” for his career. And true to form, even during his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize — he received the news in a “cheap hotel in California” — Hinton was still talking of regret rather than success.“But I am worried that the overall consequence of this might be systems more intelligent than us that eventually take control.” — AFP
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