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'Godfather of AI' says tech companies should imbue AI models with 'maternal instincts' to counter the technology’s goal to 'get more control'
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton has previously likened AI to a “cute tiger cub” that is harmless now, but could easily turn on you.
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, argues it’s only a matter of time before AI becomes power-hungry enough to threaten the wellbeing of humans. In order to mitigate the risk of this, the “godfather of AI” said tech companies should ensure their models have “maternal instincts,” so the bots can treat humans, essentially, as their babies. Hinton—a longtime academic who sold his neural network company DNNresearch to Google in 2013—has long held the belief AI can present serious dangers to humanity’s wellbeing.
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