AI PIONEERS SCOOP NOBEL PRIZE:
AI PIONEERS SCOOP NOBEL PRIZE: US scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved the way for the artificial intelligence boom.
Hinton has been widely credited as a godfather of AI and made headlines when he quit his job at Google last year to be able to more easily speak about the dangers of the technology he had pioneered.
"We have no experience of what it's like to have things smarter than us," Hinton said over the phone to the Nobel press conference.
"It's going to be wonderful in many respects, in areas like healthcare," Hinton said. "But we also have to worry about a number of possible bad consequences. Particularly the threat of these things getting out of control."
PHOTO: REUTERS
Hinton has been widely credited as a godfather of AI and made headlines when he quit his job at Google last year to be able to more easily speak about the dangers of the technology he had pioneered.
"We have no experience of what it's like to have things smarter than us," Hinton said over the phone to the Nobel press conference.
"It's going to be wonderful in many respects, in areas like healthcare," Hinton said. "But we also have to worry about a number of possible bad consequences. Particularly the threat of these things getting out of control."
PHOTO: REUTERS
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