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‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton warns of immediate danger as he resigns from Google
Geoffrey Hinton had led research into artificial intelligence at the tech giant but warned of threats of misinformation and chatbots exceeding human intelligence
Geoffrey Hinton, whose pioneering work in neural networks led to him being dubbed the ‘godfather of AI’, has resigned from his job at Google over his concerns about the dangers of the technology.
Hinton, 75, is a British-Canadian computer scientist who built a neural network in 2012 with two of his students that could analyse thousands of photos and teach itself to identify common objects. The company he founded was later bought by Google for ...
