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The godfathers of AI are at war - New Statesman

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Existential threat or humanity’s salvation? The founders of AI don’t know what’s next.

On 31 March, Geoffrey Hinton – a 75-year-old British-Canadian scientist who won the 2018 Turing Award, the “Nobel of computing”, for his foundational work in AI – resigned from Google , where he had guided AI research for a decade. One recent evening he returned to King’s College, Cambridge , where he had been an undergraduate in the 1960s, to address an expectant audience. Hinton had come to Cambridge to deliver a message: the threat of a super-powerful AI was real and immediate. “I decided to shout fire,” he told a packed lecture hall. “I don’t know what to do about it or which way to run.”

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