‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton just won a Nobel even though he’s now scared of AI

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Geoffrey Hinton, the oft-recognized ‘Godfather of AI’ and now-vocal alarm ringer for an AI-infused future, just won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in – wait for it – training artificial neural networks using physics.That’s right, the brilliant Turing Prize-winning scientist most afraid of how artificial intelligence might harm humanity has won the world’s biggest science award for his foundational work in AI.As The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (the group that awards the Nobel Prize) describes
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