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AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio: Disinformation bot threat is ‘shocking’ | BBC News
People can easily make fake election-related images with artificial intelligence tools, despite rules designed to prevent such content. Politicians including US President Joe Biden and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have found themselves victims of deepfakes. These are fake images or audio recordings generated by AI and have spread rapidly across social media. AI threatens to “supercharge” disinformation and incite violence at elections, the US…
AI 'godfather' quits Google over dangers of Artificial Intelligence – BBC News
Geoffrey Hinton, the man widely considered the ‘godfather’ of Artificial Intelligence, has quit his role with Google amid fears that AI could soon be smarter than humans. Dr Hinton’s pioneering research on neural networks and deep learning has paved the way for current AI systems like Google’s Bard chat bot and Microsoft’s ChatGPT. But in a statement to the New York Times, Dr Hinton said…