Geoffrey Hinton named 'Godfather of AI' has warned that Big Tech is ploughing money into artificial intelligence systems designed to 'do the work of workers much cheaper,' saying the technology is 'very likely' to trigger massive unemployment across advanced economies.
The British computer scientist, now 77, is not a passing critic lobbing stones from the sidelines. Hinton was one of the pioneers of modern machine learning, a figure so central to the field that Silicon Valley long ago settled on the nickname 'Godfather of AI.'
