I always thought superintelligence was a long way off and we could worry about it later, and the problem for now is just to make these more intelligent. I wish I'd thought sooner about what was going to happen.
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Geoffrey Hinton
Computer scientist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 2024
United Kingdom / Canada · b. 1947
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British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist whose work on neural networks underpins modern machine learning. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics and has warned publicly about risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
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