The Godfather of AI warns that cuts to universities will cost the US its AI edge over China

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AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says a girlfriend once broke up with him using a chatbot

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Geoffrey Hinton was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics for his breakthroughs in machine learning.

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The debate over whether AI will create or take over jobs is heating up. Here's what AI leaders are saying.

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Jensen Huang said he disagreed with Dario Amodei's view on how AI would impact jobs.

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The godfather of AI says the tech is making war easier: Autonomous weapons mean 'dead robots' instead of 'body bags'

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Geoffrey Hinton says killer robots and drones are lowering the human cost of war.

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The godfather of AI has a tip for surviving the age of AI: Train it to act like your mom

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The "godfather of AI" says trying to keep machines submissive won't work.

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The Godfather of AI thinks the technology could invent its own language that we can't understand

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Geoffrey Hinton was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics for his breakthroughs in machine learning.

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Google took 25 years to be ready for this AI moment. Apple is just starting.

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin eating lunch with early Google employees.

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From the 'godfathers of AI' to newer people in the field: Here are 17 people you should know — and what they say about the possibilities and dangers of the technology.

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Three of the "godfathers of AI" helped spark the revolution that's making its way through the tech industry — and all of society. They are, from left, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yoshua Bengio.

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The Nobel Prize-winning 'godfather of AI' says he's glad one of his students had a hand in ousting Sam Altman from OpenAI

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"I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman," computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said on Tuesday.

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Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' who warned of its existential risk, awarded Nobel Prize for Physics

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Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton has been referred to as the "Godfather of AI."

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