Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and White House seeking my help, says ‘godfather of AI’
by Alex Hern UK technology editor from on (#6BE54)
Dr Geoffrey Hinton has been inundated with requests to talk after quitting Google to warn about risk of digital intelligence
The man often touted as the godfather of artificial intelligence will be responding to requests for help from Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and the White House, he says, just days after quitting Google to warn the world about the risk of digital intelligence.
Dr Geoffrey Hinton, 75, won computer science's highest honour, the Turing award, in 2018 for his work on deep learning", along with Meta's Yann Lecun and the University of Montreal's Yoshua Bengio.
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