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
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Hinton