Artificial intelligence could soon grow beyond the controlling grasp of humans.
That’s the dire warning that professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize winner and professor emeritus in the University of Toronto computer science department, is set to deliver to European leaders at an AI summit in Dublin, reports the Daily Mail.
Hinton didn’t believe that would be possible for a few years. However, after sitting through this year’s AI Safety Foundation’s “Hinton Lectures” at U of T this week, he changed his tune. The conclusion of Hinton lecturer and AI researcher Paul Christinao is that this frightening benchmark may occur within three years, even six months.
