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Kevin Okemwa

"That's not AI's fault, that is the capitalist system." The 'Godfather of AI' warns how the tech will wipe out jobs but boost profits

Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, University of Toronto; on Centre Stage on day two of Collision 2024 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada.

Over the past few years, AI has garnered a massive amount of traction in the tech space, with most corporations trying to tap into the hype despite the technology's high capital and computing demands. The next-gen tech has come a long way from the early Bing Chat and ChatGPT hallucination days to sophisticated large language models (LLMs) that can generate images almost indistinguishable from real life.

While AI models show great promise across a wide range of sectors, including education, medicine, and computing, they also ship with their fair share of challenges. Multiple users have cited privacy and security concerns, which have seemingly prompted them to keep the technology at arm's length so far.

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