Geoffrey Hinton, known colloquially as the "Godfather of Deep Learning," spent the past decade working on artificial intelligence development at Google. But in an interview with The New York Times, Hinton announced that he has resigned from his position, and said he's worried about the rate of AI development and its potential for harm.
Hinton is one of the foremost researchers in the field of AI development. The Royal Society, to which he was elected as a Fellow in 1998, describes him as "distinguished for his work on artificial neural nets, especially how they can be designed to learn without the aid of a human teacher," and said that his work "may well be the start of autonomous intelligent brain-like machines."
