Bernie Sanders: “Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, recently told me…”

“… A Space Odyssey, in which Hal, the superintelligent computer that controlled the spaceship rebelled against its masters, the people, the crew on the spaceship. Today as AI makes rapid progress Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, recently told me that it was only a matter of time before AI becomes smarter than human beings. and Dr. Hinton is not alone in that assessment. What does that mean? If AI become smarter. Than human beings does that mean that humans will be seeding their ability to control the planet?” (01:20–14:01)

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