Unwanted post sanctions are coming: Experts believe the AI moderators being deployed to take down inappropriate posts on social media are going to be far too harsh. — Photo: Silas Stein/dpa
WASHINGTON: The alarm around so-called artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning has prompted the technology’s “godfather” Geoffrey Hinton to lament his life’s work.
AI, the warnings go, could see widespread job losses or worse, should it “get smarter than people”, as Hinton put it when he quit his job at Google in early May.
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