The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning
had not seen them in any of the sweepstakes ahead of the announcement. But if everything is either physics or stamp collecting we just promoted machine learning to “physics”. (Lovely overlaps with sta...
Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on nuance in headlines about AI, taboos among AI researchers, and why top researchers may disagree about AI's potential risks to humanity
Susan D'Agostino / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : X: @bulletinatomic , @susan_dagostino , @aisafetyfirst , and @flixrisk LinkedIn: Prakash Hebalkar , Michael Robbins , and Steve Johnson Forums: ...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
A look at media coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting
The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months. Tweets: @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @janebsinger , @emilymbender , @datad...
Geoffrey Hinton should have spoken up years ago when others like Timnit Gebru were criticizing Google over LLMs; hopefully Hinton spurs others to speak up now
It is hard not to be worried when the so-called godfather of artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, says he is leaving Google and regrets his life's work.
Profile of Geoffrey Hinton, a neural net pioneer at the University of Toronto, Google, and now the Vector Institute, which aims to stop Toronto's AI brain drain
Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years hammering away at an idea most other scientists dismissed as nonsense. Then, one day in 2012, he was proven right. Tweets: @marijamijalko , @lockstockbarrl , and @toron...