British-Canadian Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often revered as the “Godfather of AI,” said AI is one of “three big revolutions where people ceased to be so important,” the others being Copernicanism — the understanding that planets revolve around the Sun, not the Earth — and Darwinism.
“Now we’re creating alien beings — meaning we’re not the only intelligent beings around,” the 78-year-old told The Guardian in a story published Tuesday. “And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.”
