The “Godfather of AI” has warned that within the next ten years, artificial intelligence may exterminate humanity. Professor Geoffrey Hinton,
Who has expressed remorse for his role in developing the technology, compared its quick progress to the industrial revolution but cautioned that this time the machines would “take control.”
The 77-year-old British computer scientist, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, demanded that governments regulate AI companies more strictly.
According to Professor Hinton’s earlier predictions, there is a 10% probability that AI would bring about the extinction of humanity in the next thirty years.
“Not really,” he said when asked whether anything had altered his view on BBC Radio 4’s Today program. If anything, I estimate 10 to 20 [years]. Never before have we had to contend with something smarter than ourselves.
And how many instances of a less intelligent being controlling a more intelligent one do you know of? There aren’t many instances. Prof.
