The Guardian reported that Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel prize-winning computer scientist widely described as one of the godfathers of AI, has raised a warning about the technology whose development his research helped underpin. According to the Guardian, Hinton said a large-scale incident linked to AI could occur this year or next, potentially causing a temporary shutdown of power supplies or financial systems. He told the Guardian he does not consider himself a pessimist about AI, noting its capacity to deliver a positive future, but suggested that humanity may ultimately regret creating it. His research into artificial neural networks laid the foundations for the technology.
Source: The Guardian.
