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Nobel Prize awarded to ‘godfather of AI’ who warned it could wipe out humanity

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Nobel Prize awarded to ‘godfather of AI’ who warned it could wipe out humanity

www.independent.co.uk

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John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton both recognised for their work on early machine learning techniques that helped build today’s advanced systems

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The prize is named after the dude, he doesn’t get to decide the rules of its award in perpetuity.

Yes he does. It’s the law.

Nobel’s last will specified that his fortune be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the “greatest benefit on mankind”

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