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Godfather of AI tells '60 Minutes' he fears the technology could one day take over humanity (www.yahoo.com)
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Godfather of AI tells '60 Minutes' he fears the technology could one day take over humanity::Computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Hinton says despite its potential for good, AI could one day escape our control.

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[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn’t Raytheon owners of the largest quantum computer at one point and was talking about how their drones were preparing to use or using AI? It’ll probably be the US’ dumbass defense contractors that do it first. At least we made some really cool weapons before they killed us…

[–] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To my knowledge quantum computers are not a reality yet.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They are, they are just not very useful.