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Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton and chemistry laureate Demis Hassabis on Saturday insisted on a need for strong regulation of artificial intelligence, which played a key role in their awards. «AI is a very important technology to regulate but I think it's very important that we get the regulations right and I think that's the hard thing at the moment is it's such a fast moving technology,» Hassabis told a news conference in Stockholm. Hassabis, who jointly won with Americans David Baker and John Jumper for revealing the secrets of proteins through AI, said such evolutionary speed posed a giant challenge.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk—a recent Economist article describes them as the small, powerful group of five men who will determine the path along which artificial intelligence (AI) evolves. Their fellow AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who invented the neural network system that enables AI models to learn like humans, quit Google in 2023 to alert the world that while further development of AI could lead us to a utopian future, it could equally lead us to a dystopian one.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: Notwithstanding some of last year’s tech disappointments, including the metaverse and Generative AI (GenAI), which fell short on scalability and returns, tech innovation continues at a scorching pace. GenAI is revolutionising content creation, while artificial intelligence (AI) agentic systems are advancing autonomous decision-making, reigniting debates around artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its ethical implications.

University of Toronto professor and Nobel Prize winner, often referred to as the “Godfather of AI,” is warning that the technology could develop and “make us irrelevant” without significant research into how to control it.Geoffrey Hinton, a British-Canadian professor at the University of Toronto, won the Nobel Prize in physics at the beginning of the month along with Princeton University researcher John Hopfield for work on machine learning and artificial neural networks.Speaking to Global News in a rare interview this week after winning the prestigious international award, Hinton pointed to the positives AI can bring but warned its rapid evolution could be existentially problematic.“I’m most concerned about the long-term dangers because those are the ones that people think are maybe just science fiction,” he said.“So, the biggest long-term danger is that, once these artificial intelligences get smarter than we are, they will take control –they’ll make us irrelevant.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the broad theme of this year’s Nobel awards.

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics

There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are broadly as smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as chief technology officer (CTO), has been appointed as the company's interim CEO with immediate effect as the company seeks a permanent replacement. Murati's appointment comes after OpenAI in a recent statement announced the departure of co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman. The company said an internal review highlighted Altman's lack of consistent transparency in communications with the board of directors.

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is looking to demand information on millions of dollars in payments it had previously given to a nonprofit AI safety organization — the Center for AI Safety (CAIS).

The chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at Meta has spoken out, reportedly saying that worries over the existential risks of the technology are still “premature,” according to a Financial Times interview. 

Dozens of artificial intelligence (AI) experts, including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic, recently signed an open statement published by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS). 

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneer, nicknamed the “Godfather of AI” has resigned from his position at Big Tech firm Google so he could speak more openly about the potential dangers of the technology.