![]() He said companies like Google had stopped being proper stewards for AI in the face of competition to advance the technology. ![]() Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called ‘godfather of AI’, who quit Google in order to speak more freely on AI. Hinton, who is referred to as the godfather of AI, won the Turing award in 2018 for his work on “deep learning”, which is the foundation for much of the AI in use today. Schmidhuber’s position contrasts with a number of his contemporaries, including Dr Geoffrey Hinton, who spectacularly quit Google this week after a decade with the company in order to speak more freely on AI. ![]() Because in 95% of all cases, AI research is really about our old motto, which is make human lives longer and healthier and easier.” I would be much more worried about the old dangers of nuclear bombs than about the new little dangers of AI Prof Jürgen Schmidhuber “But then I think you also shouldn’t stop it. So, of course, they are not going to participate in some sort of moratorium. “Surely not on an international level, because one country might may have really different goals from another country. “You cannot stop it,” says Schmidhuber, who is now the director of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology’s AI initiative in Saudi Arabia. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup The German computer scientist says there is competition between governments, universities and companies all seeking to advance the technology, meaning there is now an AI arms race, whether humanity likes it or not. ![]() That maturity has arrived, and while some AI pioneers are looking upon their creations in horror – calling for a handbrake on the acceleration and proliferation of the technology – Schmidhuber says those calls are misguided. ![]()
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