Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, has been working on artificial intelligence for decades and now believes it could wipe out humanity. He revolutionized AI twice, first in his work on neural networks and then in deep learning. Hinton comes from a family of mathematicians and scientists and has complained about the application of AI, not the basics. He worries about AI’s ability to help bad actors and believes that Google’s language model, Palm, could be a much better form of intelligence that could replace us. He summarizes the French philosopher Blaise Pascal’s thoughts on AI killing billions of people.
