Should humanity switch it off? Geoffrey Hinton worked on some of the earliest versions of AI. Now he thinks we are sleepwalking into a global catastrophe that could wipe us out.
Godfather of AI fears what he has built
Modern sage: In 2018 Geoffrey Hinton was given the Turing Award for his work on AI. Glossary
AI - A computer programme that has been designed to think.
Neural - Relating to the nerves.
Singularity - The point at which something becomes infinite.
Exponentially - Exponential growth is when the rate of growth increases steadily over time, for instance by doubling: 1, 2, 4, 8 rather than 1, 2, 3, 4. This kind of growth has the capacity to lead to dramatic changes over relatively short time spans.