'Godfather of AI' says he's 'glad' to be 77 because the tech probably won't take over the world in his lifetime

Geoffrey Hinton gave a "sort of 10 to 20% chance" that AI systems could one day seize control.

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• Geoffrey Hinton, the "godfather of AI," says the technology is advancing faster than expected.
• He warned that if AI becomes superintelligent, humans may have no way of stopping it from taking over.
• Hinton, who previously worked at Google, compared AI development to raising a tiger cub that could turn deadly.

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