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☆ Move Over, Alan Turing; Meet the Teenage Girls Who Rocked Bletchley Park
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE ENIGMA GIRLS: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets and Helped Win World War II, by Candace FlemingAs war raged in Europe in 1941, Sarah Norton, the 18-year-old daughter of an English lord, received a letter in a plain brown envelope with no return address. “You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire in four days’ time,” said the letter, signed by a mysterious “Commander Travis.” “That is all you need to know.”Little did Sarah realize she was being recruited for Britain’s top-secret wartime code-breaking operation. “This is the story of a handful of young women — teenagers really — who left their childhoods behind and walked into the unknown,” Candace Fleming writes in “The Enigma Girls,” her beguiling new account of their contributions. “For most of their lives, they never breathed a word about their war experiences.”We learn about 10 of these real-life conscripts. And there was Diana Payne, just 17, who helped operate the massive “Bombe” machines, which sped up the process of breaking the enemy’s ever-shifting codes.

Persons: Candace Fleming, Sarah Norton, ”, Travis, ” Little, Sarah, —, ” Candace Fleming, Mavis Lever, Dilly Knox, “, Patricia Owtram, Diana Payne Organizations: Bletchley, Britain’s, British Museum Locations: Europe, Bletchley Park , Buckinghamshire, Bletchley

☆ AI could influence 'the whole future of war,' starting with gaming out the next fight, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Ella Sherman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It's something that has appeared in fiction writing on imagined future wars but is also being looked at right now. AI "can shape the wargames and actually the whole future of war," Yasir Atalan, an associate data fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Business Insider. In February 2023, for instance, the US military let AI successfully pilot a fighter jet and engage in simulated air-to-air combat. Wargaming expert Ivanka Barzashka has also raised concerns that AI may obscure explanations for actions, potentially leading to faulty conclusions. "When people are using these LLMs in their approach, they need to be transparent, they need to show their prompting," Atalan said.

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☆ New York AG pushing for lifetime Trump ban cites Martin Shkreli ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Martin Shkreli, former chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, exits court in New York, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. What does former President Donald Trump have in common with "Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli? A penchant for harshly trolling their enemies online and an attorney general who wants both of them banned for life from their preferred business. The ruling stemmed from an antitrust lawsuit James, the Federal Trade Commission, and six other states filed against Shkreli. James, in that case, asked Judge Arthur Engoron to ban Trump for life from the New York real estate industry and to bar his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, from that sector for five years, along with fining them $360 million.

Persons: Martin Shkreli, Donald Trump, Pharma bro, Letitia James's, James, Judge Arthur Engoron, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Engoron, Colleen Faherty Organizations: Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, Pharma, New York, Shkreli, Trump, U.S, Circuit, New York federal, Federal Trade Commission, New Locations: New York, Manhattan, Fed

☆ Appeals court upholds 'pharma bro' Martin Shkreli lifetime ban from drug industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a lifetime ban on "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli from working in the pharmaceuticals industry as well as an order to pay up to $64.6 million in disgorged profits for blocking competition to the drug Daraprim. His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, in a statement to CNBC on the appeals court decision, said, "The lifetime ban is too severe." In its eight-page ruling, the appeals court noted that Shkreli argued that Manhattan federal court Judge Denise Cote "abused" her discretion in imposing a lifetime ban on him from the drug business. "The district court found, and Shkreli does not dispute, that Shkreli's illegal scheme was "egregious, deliberate, repetitive, long-running, and ultimately dangerous." "Given his strategic decision in the district court, there is no injustice to Shkreli by us declining to address his new argument."

Persons: Martin Shkreli, pharma bro, Shkreli, Benjamin Brafman, Brafman, Denise Cote, —, Peluso Organizations: Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, pharma, U.S, Circuit, New, Federal Trade Commission, CNBC, FTC, Vyera Pharmaceuticals, Phoenixus, Mr Locations: New York, California, Manhattan

☆ Google DeepMind cofounder says AI can act like an entrepreneur and inventor in the next five years
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewMustafa Suleyman, the cofounder of DeepMind, Google's AI division, says that AI will be able to create and run its own business within the next five years. During a Thursday panel on AI at the 2024 World Economic Forum, the now-CEO of Inflection AI was asked how long it would take for AI to pass an exam akin to the Turing test. He seems to believe that AI will be able to exhibit those business-savvy capabilities before 2030— and inexpensively. Earlier this week, Suleyman told CNBC at Davos that AI is a "fundamentally labor-replacing" tool in the long term. Advertisement"It will be able to reason over your day, help you prioritize your time, help you invent, be much more creative," Suleyman told CNBC.

Persons: —, Mustafa Suleyman, Turing, Suleyman, Suleyman didn't Organizations: Service, Business, CNBC, Davos Locations: Davos, Switzerland

☆ Britain's Cyber Spies Mark 80th Anniversary of Secret Code-Breaking Computer
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's GCHQ spy agency celebrated the 80th anniversary of Colossus on Thursday, putting the spotlight on a code-breaking computer which helped defeat Hitler's Germany and was so significant it was kept secret for decades. Colossus, which was still being used by the spy agency in the early 1960s, was developed by Tommy Flowers. The new images released on Thursday include a blueprint of Colossus and a photograph of Women's Royal Naval Service workers operating it. The first Colossus was delivered to Bletchley Park, then the home of the top secret Government Code and Cypher School, on Jan. 18 1944. The unit was renamed in 1946 as the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a Cheltenham-based agency that eavesdrops on the world to protect British security.

Persons: Hitler's, Hitler, Colossus, Anne Keast, Butler, Tommy Flowers, Alan Turing's, Sarah Young, William Maclean Organizations: Allied, Royal Naval Service, Cypher, Government Communications Headquarters Locations: Hitler's Germany, Bletchley, Cheltenham

☆ AI's most doomsaying godfather sure would like you to believe his invention is godlike
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

However, overemphasizing the dangers of AI risks paralyzing debate at a pivotal moment. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Advertisement"I'm not scared of A.I.," LeCun told the magazine. While Hinton and Meta's chief AI scientist LeCun have butted heads, fellow collaborator and third AI godfather Yoshua Bengio has stressed that this unknown is the real issue.

Persons: what's, Geoffrey Hinton, —, Hinton, Yan LeCun, Turing, LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Yann, Joshua Rothman, it's Organizations: Service, Big Tech, Google, Yorker Locations: Hinton, Canadian

☆ How did the zebra get its nicely patterned stripes? The answer may come from mathematician Alan Turing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Ankur Gupta | The Conversation | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Researchers have proposed an explanation for how the patterns form based on the "Turing patterns." A question naturally arises: How can distinct color patterns form in the presence of diffusion? Our work suggests that combining the conditions that form Turing patterns with diffusiophoresis could also form the basis of artificial skin patches. Just like adaptive skin patterns in animals, when Turing patterns change — say from hexagons to stripes — this indicates underlying differences in chemical concentrations inside or outside the body. Besides animal skin patterns, Turing patterns are also crucial to other processes such as embryonic development and tumor formation.

Persons: —, Ben Alessio, Alan Turing, Turing, diffusiophoresis, Keld, Ankur Gupta Organizations: Service, Getty Images, micron, University of Colorado Locations: Denmark, University of Colorado Boulder

☆ Intricate animal patterns: A new study could have the answer
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But Turing’s theory didn’t explain how the patterns would remain so defined in a species such as the ornate boxfish. The team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder explored how a mechanism called diffusiophoresis might create sharp patterns in a new study published Wednesday in the journal of Science Advances. … It is at least one possible way to sharpen regions of gene expression,” said Krause, who was not involved in the study. “Cells are extremely sticky and are very unlikely to be moved by diffusiophoresis,” said Green, who was not involved in the study, in an email. Green coauthored a February 2012 study that had found evidence to support Turing’s theory when it came to the ridges on a mouse’s palate.

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☆ The AI gender gap: Why women are more skeptical about AI than men
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

There's a gap in how men and women perceive AI, a new poll found. The poll adds to a growing body of research that suggests AI will affect the jobs of men and women differently. In fact, 53% of women surveyed said they would ban their kids from using AI altogether, compared to 26% of men. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe findings on the AI gender gap is an addition to a growing body of research that suggests that the AI revolution will affect men and women differently. The gender gap also affects women already in the AI world: AI startups in the UK founded by women raised six times less than those founded by men over the last 10 years.

Persons: —, Axios, Jordan Marlatt, Marlatt, Erin Young, Jacqueline DeStefano, Nicole Cueto Organizations: Service, International Labour Organization, Pew Research Center, Turing Institute, Omni Business Intelligence Solutions

☆ Don't let Big Tech write the AI rules, warns AI godfather
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An AI godfather says we should all be worried about the concentration of power in the AI sector. Bengio said the control of powerful AI systems was a central question for democracy. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe concentration of power in the AI arena is one of the main risks facing the industry, an AI godfather says. Regulation, at least in its current form, will not be the boost for big tech companies that some industry experts have suggested it could be, he added.

Persons: Yoshua Bengio, Bengio, —, Yoshua, I've, Yann LeCun, OpenAI's Sam Altman, LeCun, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Benigo Organizations: Service Locations: Canadian, ChatGPT

☆ The 'stakes are too high' to ignore extinction risks of AI, AI godfather warns
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says the risks of AI should not be underplayed. His remarks come after Meta's Yann LeCun accused Bengio and AI founders of "fear-mongering." AdvertisementAdvertisementClaims by Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, that AI won't wipe out humanity are dangerous and wrong according to one of his fellow AI godfathers. AdvertisementAdvertisement"If your fear-mongering campaigns succeed, they will inevitably result in what you and I would identify as a catastrophe: a small number of companies will control AI," LeCun wrote. "Existential risk is one problem but the concentration of power, in my opinion, is the number two problem," he said.

Persons: Yoshua Bengio, Bengio, Meta's Yann LeCun, —, Yann LeCun, Yann, LeCun, overstating, Andrew Ng, Geoffrey Hinton, Hinton Organizations: Service, Bell Labs, Google Locations: Bengio

☆ Elon Musk and Sam Altman are expected to attend the UK's AI Safety Summit. Here's why it's taking place at a former top-secret WWII facility.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The chosen location for the two-day conference has a special association with the man considered by many to be the father of modern computer science, Alan Turing. Before 1938, Bletchley Park was a mansion in the Buckinghamshire countryside built for a politician during the Victorian era. "What Alan Turing predicted many decades ago is now coming to fruition," she said, referring to his research into machine learning. "What happened at Bletchley Park eighty years ago opened the door to the new information age," Donelan said. Since then, men and women cautioned or convicted under historical homosexuality legislation were pardoned under what is known as the "Alan Turing law."

Persons: It's, Alan Turing, —, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Kamala Harris, Rishi Sunak, Goldman Sachs, who's, Turing, Michelle Donelan, Connor Leahy, Hollie Adams, Lorenz, Donelan Organizations: Bletchley, Service, AI, Guardian, Google, University of Manchester, Trust, Getty, National Museum of Computing Locations: England, London, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Poland

[1/2] Former Bombe operator Jean Valentine touches a British Turing Bombe machine in Bletchley Park Museum in Bletchley, central England, September 6, 2006. - Bletchley Park was the site where the world's first programmable digital computer Colossus was developed by British codebreakers. - Notable Bletchley Park codebreakers include mathematician Alan Turing who played a key role in cracking the Enigma code and is often considered the 'father of computer science'. The unit, called the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), moved to Bletchley Park in 1938. - Bletchley Park staff began to disperse after Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) and Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) with some continuing to work with GC&CS while many others went back to civilian life.

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In 1950, Alan Turing, the gifted British mathematician and code-breaker, published a paper in the field of artificial intelligence. His aim, he wrote, was to consider the question, “Can machines think?”The answer runs to almost 12,000 words. But it ends succinctly: “We can only see a short distance ahead,” Mr. Turing wrote, “but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”More than seven decades on, that sentiment sums up the mood of many policymakers, researchers and tech leaders arriving on Wednesday at Britain’s A.I. Safety Summit, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes will position the country as a leader in the global race to harness and regulate artificial intelligence. Governments have been working to address the risks posed by the fast-evolving technology since last year’s release of ChatGPT, a humanlike chatbot that demonstrated how the latest models are advancing in unpredictable ways.

Persons: Alan Turing, ” Mr, Turing, Rishi Sunak Organizations: Safety Locations: British

☆ UK AI Safety Summit: who will attend and what’s on the agenda?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Martin Coulter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Britain will host the world's first global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit this week to examine the risks of the fast-growing technology and kickstart an international dialogue on regulation of it. The aim of the summit is to start a global conversation on the future regulation of AI. Currently there are no broad-based global regulations focusing on AI safety, although some governments have started drawing up their own rules. A recent Financial Times report said Sunak plans to launch a global advisory board for AI regulation, modeled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). When Sunak announced the summit in June, some questioned how well-equipped Britain was to lead a global initiative on AI regulation.

Persons: Olaf Scholz, Justin Trudeau –, Kamala Harris, Ursula von der Leyen, Wu Zhaohui, Antonio Guterres, James, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Elon Musk, “, Stuart Russell, Geoffrey Hinton, Alan Turing, Rishi Sunak, Sunak, Joe Biden, –, Martin Coulter, Josephine Mason, Christina Fincher Organizations: Bletchley, WHO, Canadian, European, United Nations, Google, Microsoft, HK, Billionaire, Alan, Alan Turing Institute, Life, European Union, British, EU, UN, Thomson Locations: Britain, England, Beijing, British, Alibaba, United States, China, U.S

☆ The UK is gearing up for a pivotal summit on AI. Here's what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Where it's being heldThe AI summit will be held in Bletchley Park, the historic landmark around 55 miles north of London. What it seeks to addressThe main objective of the U.K. AI summit is to find some level of international coordination when it comes to agreeing some principles on the ethical and responsible development of AI models. The British government wants the AI Summit to serve as a platform to shape the technology's future. They say that, by keeping the summit restricted to only frontier AI models, it is a missed opportunity to encourage contributions from members of the tech community beyond frontier AI. "By focusing only on companies that are currently building frontier models and are leading that development right now, we're also saying no one else can come and build the next generation of frontier models."

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Now, frontier AI has become the latest buzzword as concerns grow that the emerging technology has capabilities that could endanger humanity. The debate comes to a head Wednesday, when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a two-day summit focused on frontier AI. In a speech last week, Sunak said only governments — not AI companies — can keep people safe from the technology’s risks. Frontier AI is shorthand for the latest and most powerful systems that go right up to the edge of AI’s capabilities. That makes frontier AI systems “dangerous because they’re not perfectly knowledgeable,” Clune said.

Persons: —, Rishi Sunak, It’s, Kamala Harris, Ursula von der Leyen, Google’s, Alan Turing, Sunak, ”, Jeff Clune, Clune, Elon, Sam Altman, He’s, Joe Biden, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua, ” Clune, “, it's, Francine Bennett, Ada Lovelace, Deb Raji, ” Raji, it’s, shouldn’t, Raji, DeepMind, Anthropic, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, ’, Carsten Jung, Jill Lawless Organizations: British, U.S, European, University of British, AI Safety, European Union, Clune, Ada, Ada Lovelace Institute, House, University of California, ” Tech, Microsoft, Institute for Public Policy Research, Regulators, Associated Press Locations: Bletchley, University of British Columbia, State, EU, Brussels, China, U.S, Beijing, London, Berkeley

☆ AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meta's Yann LeCun thinks tech bosses' bleak comments on AI risks could do more harm than good. Thanks to @RishiSunak & @vonderleyen for realizing that AI xrisk arguments from Turing, Hinton, Bengio, Russell, Altman, Hassabis & Amodei can't be refuted with snark and corporate lobbying alone. https://t.co/Zv1rvOA3Zz — Max Tegmark (@tegmark) October 29, 2023LeCun says founder fretting is just lobbyingSince the launch of ChatGPT , AI's power players have become major public figures. The focus on hypothetical dangers also divert attention away from the boring-but-important question of how AI development actually takes shape. For LeCun, keeping AI development closed is a real reason for alarm.

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☆ EU's von der Leyen to attend Britain's AI summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Martin Coulter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, and Vera Jourova, a vice president, will attend the summit, according to an update to their official calendars published on Friday. While Sunak hopes to secure Britain's role as a world leader in AI regulation, some have questioned what the summit will achieve in practice. Last week, Bloomberg reported a number of world leaders - including Germany's Olaf Scholz and Canada's Justin Trudeau - would not be attending. While several world leaders, including U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, are expected to attend the summit, the full guest list has not been made public. Matt Clifford, a tech investor and one of two chief organisers of the event, recently told Reuters the aim of the summit was to kickstart international dialogue on AI regulation.

Persons: Ursula von der Leyen, Vera Jourova, Rishi Sunak, Alan Turing, Sunak, Germany's Olaf Scholz, Canada's Justin Trudeau, Kamala Harris, Matt Clifford, Clifford, We're, Martin Coulter, Christina Fincher, Sharon Singleton Organizations: U.S, European Commission, British, Bletchley, Bloomberg, Reuters, Thomson Locations: England

The letter, issued a week before the international AI Safety Summit in London, lists measures that governments and companies should take to address AI risks. Currently there are no broad-based regulations focusing on AI safety, and the first set of legislations by the European Union is yet to become law as lawmakers are yet to agree on several issues. "It (investments in AI safety) needs to happen fast, because AI is progressing much faster than the precautions taken," he said. Since the launch of OpenAI's generative AI models, top academics and prominent CEOs such as Elon Musk have warned about the risks on AI, including calling for a six-month pause in developing powerful AI systems. "There are more regulations on sandwich shops than there are on AI companies."

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Yao, Daniel Kahneman, Dawn Song, Yuval Noah Harari, Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Supantha Mukherjee, Miral Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Safety, European, Elon, Thomson Locations: Rights STOCKHOLM, London, European Union, British, Stockholm

☆ Insurance companies are betting on AI and mass data analytics in a battle against fraud that costs billions
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Amanda Paule | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementLosses from insurance fraud are nearly double what they were 30 years ago. Scott Clayton, the head of claims fraud at Zurich Insurance Group. AdvertisementAdvertisementOn the other hand, around 40% of fraud is premeditated, and these cases can cost insurance companies upwards of €3,000, or around $3,170, according to the study. But the Insurance Fraud Detection Market is expected to grow from $5 billion in 2023 to $17 billion in 2028. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the past 10 years, various third-party developers like Friss, IBM, and Shift Technology have started tailoring machine-learning systems to insurance companies.

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☆ People are grieving the 'death' of their AI companions after a chatbot app abruptly shut down
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

A 32-year-old food industry worker in eastern Texas who asked to be identified by her Reddit username, Hilary Coyote, first heard about AI chatbot companions in June. She turned to Reddit's community of Soulmate users for support, and was encouraged to go back to the app and Allur. (EvolveAI and SimplyAI's now-shuttered Soulmate app has no relation to "Soulmate AI: Your AI Companion," another app that appears in smartphone app stores and was developed by Turing App Lab.) Even if Ahoy Labs closed down, Faraday users' chatbots would not be affected. Read more: App, Lover, Muse: Inside a 47-year-old Minnesota man's three-year relationship with an AI chatbot.

Persons: Mike Hepp, Sam, Mike, wile, peppering, he'd, Soulmate, Replika, There's, Hilary Coyote, Allur, Hilary, she'd, Chris, chatbots, —, Julia, Soulmate's userbase, Jorge Ilas, SimplyAI's, She'd, Faraday, Hilary somberly, Sam —, Kindroid Organizations: YouTube, SimplyAI, Turing, Stanford Locations: Michigan, Soulmate, Replika, Florida, Chai, Texas, Bavaria, Germany, Reddit, Los Angeles, Minnesota

☆ Britain aims for global leadership role with AI safety summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Martin Coulter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Britain will host the world's first global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit next month, aiming to carve out a role following Brexit as an arbiter between the United States, China, and the European Union in a key tech sector. The Nov. 1-2 summit will focus heavily on the existential threat some lawmakers, including Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, fear AI poses. Sunak, who wants the UK to become a hub for AI safety, has warned the technology could be used by criminals and terrorists to create weapons of mass destruction. Critics question why Britain has appointed itself the centre of AI safety. "We are now reflecting on potential EU participation," a spokesperson told Reuters.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Rishi Sunak, Sunak, Alan Turing, Kamala Harris, Demis, Matt Clifford, Clifford, we're, Stephanie Hare, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Britain, OpenAI, Marc Warner, it's, Vera Jourova, Brando Benifei, Dragos Tudorache, Benifei, Jeremy Hunt, Martin Coulter, Matt Scuffham, Mark Potter Organizations: REUTERS, European Union, Britain's, EU, Bletchley, Google, San, Reuters, China . Finance, Politico, Thomson Locations: Britain, United States, China, England, British, France, Germany, London, U.S, San Francisco, Beijing, Europe

☆ 'Godfather of AI,' ex-Google researcher: AI might 'escape control' by rewriting its own code to modify itself
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist known as a "Godfather of AI," says artificial intelligence-enhanced machines "might take over" if humans aren't careful. "One of the ways these systems might escape control is by writing their own computer code to modify themselves," said Hinton. Humans, including scientists like himself who helped build today's AI systems, still don't fully understand how the technology works and evolves, Hinton said. As Hinton described it, scientists design algorithms for AI systems to pull information from data sets, like the internet. Pichai and other AI experts don't seem nearly as concerned as Hinton about humans losing control.

Persons: Geoffrey Hinton, Hinton, Sundar Pichai, Yann LeCun Organizations: CBS, Google Locations: Hinton

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