Google Scientist Says...
Computers Will Develop
"Common Sense”
within a Decade
Prominent artificial intelligence scientist Professor Geoff Hinton predicts computers will develop “common sense” within a decade.
Hinton is helping develop intelligent operating systems at Google where he says, in an interview with The Guardian, the company is on the verge of creating algorithms with the ability for logic, fluid conversation and flirtation.
According to Hinton, Google is at an early stage of working on a new type of algorithm that encodes “thoughts as sequences of numbers,” what he refers to as “thought vectors.” He believes a more advanced version may reach a “human-like capacity for reasoning and logic” that will basically give machines “common sense.”
Hinton said that the reality of people chatting to their machines for fun like in the film Her in the near future is “not that far-fetched,” saying “I don’t see why it shouldn’t be like a friend. I don’t see why you shouldn’t grow quite attached to them.”
While the likes of SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, Stephen Hawkings and Bill Gates have often expressed concerns over super intelligent AI, Hinton believes the real threats lay with the NSA.
“I’m more scared about the things that have already happened. The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does," Hinton said.“I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I’d be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots."
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Source : ign
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