Artificial intelligence pioneers win ‘Tech Nobel’
The HinduComputers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don’t think twice about chatting with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri or seeing their friends automatically tagged in Facebook pictures. The trio tapped into their own brainpower to make it possible for machines to learn like humans, a breakthrough now commonly known as “artificial intelligence,” or AI. Although they have known each other for than 30 years, Mr. Bengio, Mr. Hinton and Mr. LeCun have mostly worked separately on technology known as neural networks. Mr. Bengio, Mr. Hinton and Mr. LeCun share some of those concerns especially the doomsday scenarios that envision AI technology developed into weapons systems that wipe out humanity. “One thing is very clear, the techniques that we developed can be used for an enormous amount of good affecting hundreds of millions of people,” Mr. Hinton said.
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