{"id":1012,"date":"2023-05-04T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2023\/05\/04\/qa-googles-geoffrey-hinton-humanity-just-a-passing-phase-in-the-evolution-of-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:16:07","slug":"qa-googles-geoffrey-hinton-humanity-just-a-passing-phase-in-the-evolution-of-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2023\/05\/04\/qa-googles-geoffrey-hinton-humanity-just-a-passing-phase-in-the-evolution-of-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Google\u2019s Geoffrey Hinton \u2014 humanity just a &#8216;passing phase&#8217; in the evolution of intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Hinton, a professor and former Google engineering fellow, is known as\u00a0\u201cgodfather of artificial intelligence&#8221; because of his\u00a0 contributions to the development of the technology. A cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, he pioneered work on developing artificial neural networks and deep learning techniques, such as back propagation \u2014 the algorithm that allows computers to learn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hinton, 75, is also a 2018 winner of the Turning Award, colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize of computer science.<\/p>\n<p>With that background, Hinton made waves recently when he announced his resignation from Google and wrote a statement to <em>The New York Times<\/em> warning of the dire consequences of AI and of his regret over having been involved in its development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3695568\/qa-googles-geoffrey-hinton-humanity-just-a-passing-phase-in-the-evolution-of-intelligence.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Hinton, a professor and former Google engineering fellow, is known as\u00a0\u201cgodfather of artificial intelligence&#8221; because of his\u00a0 contributions to the development of the technology. A cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, he pioneered work on developing artificial neural networks and deep learning techniques, such as back propagation \u2014 the algorithm that allows computers to learn.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}