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The British-Canadian computer scientist, often hailed as the "godfather" of artificial intelligence, has raised the odds that artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity within the next three decades, warning that the pace of change in technology is "much faster" than as expected.
Professor Geoffrey Hinton, who this year won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on Artificial Intelligence, said there is a 10%-20% chance that Artificial Intelligence will lead humanity to destruction in the next three decades.
Hinton had previously said there was a 10% chance the technology would cause a catastrophic outcome for humanity.
Asked on BBC Radio 4's Today program if he had changed his analysis of a possible AI apocalypse and the 1 in 10 chance of it happening, he said: “Not really, 10% to 20%.
Hinton's assessment prompted Today's guest editor, former minister Sajid Javid, to say “you're going up”, to which Hinton replied: “If anything. You see, we've never had to deal with more intelligent things than we did before."
He added: “And how many examples do you know of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing? There are very few examples. There is a mother and a child. Evolution has gone to great lengths to allow the child to control the mother, but this is the only example I know of."
London-born Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, said humans would be small compared to the intelligence of very powerful AI systems.
"I like to think of it as: imagine yourself and a three-year-old child. We will be three years old," he said.
AI can be loosely defined as computer systems that perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.
Last year, Hinton made headlines after resigning from his job at Google in order to speak more openly about the dangers posed by the unfettered development of AI, citing concerns that "bad actors" would use the technology to harm others. A key concern of AI security activists is that the creation of artificial general intelligence, or systems that are smarter than humans, could lead to technology that poses an existential threat while eluding human control.
Reflecting on where he thought the development of AI would have reached when he first started his work in the technology, Hinton said: “I didn't think it would be where [we are] now. I thought that at some point in the future we will get here."
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