Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of Deep Learning

Geoffrey Hinton fears an AI takeover. The computer scientist, known as the “godfather of AI,” recently resigned from Google to speak more freely about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. “I think that it’s conceivable that this kind of advanced intelligence could just take over from us,” Hinton told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. “It would mean the end of people.” But other experts in the field of AI caution against his visions of a hypothetical dystopian future, saying they genera