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Who's who in AIAI glossary

Geoffrey Hinton

One of the pioneers of neural networks, dubbed one of the "godfathers of AI": his work made deep learning possible. In 2023, he left Google so that he could speak freely about the risks of the technology he helped to create.

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Turing Award 2018, then the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with John Hopfield.

Alyriaz articles that mention it

  • Hollywood takes on tech bosses · Society

    Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman, Jeremy Strong Mark Zuckerberg. At the cinema, the central figure of AI is no longer a machine, but a boss.

  • AI that improves itself: its builders sound the alarm · Vision

    At Anthropic, AI already writes over 80% of the code. Pioneers and researchers from the big labs warn: the loop could run away with itself.

  • Are we still in control? The real problem with AI control · Society

    In our previous article on AI acceleration, we asked a dizzying question: if technology is evolving faster than our ability to understand it, are we still in control? Six months on, the first concrete cases of "loss of control" are coming to light. Here is what they teach us.

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