"Godfather of AI" warns there's a 10 to 20% chance AI could seize control

In brief: Geoffrey Hinton, one of the three legendary computer scientists who have become known as the Godfathers of AI, is once again warning that the rapidly developing and lightly regulated AI industry poses a threat to humanity. Hinton said people don't understand what is coming, and that there is a 10 to 20 percent chance of AI eventually taking control away from humans. Speaking during an interview earlier this month that was aired on CBS Saturday morning, Hinton, who jointly won the Nobel Prize in physics last year, issued a warning about the direction that AI development is heading. "The best way to understand it emotionally is we are like somebody who has this really cute tiger cub," Hinton said. "Unless you can be very sure that it's not gonna want to kill you when it's grown up, you should worry." "People haven't got it yet, people haven't understood what's coming," he warned. It was Hinton's ideas that created the technical foundations that make large-scale models such ... Read full article.