Is The World Ready To Embrace Deep Learning? Articles Internet of Things

Deep Learning is, as with all technology, neither inherently good nor bad. However, it is not just lunatics in foil hats who are worried that self aware computers could spell danger. The CEO and co-founder of DeepMind himself, Demis Hassabis, has acknowledged that the advanced techniques his own group is pioneering may cause AI to spiral out of human control, and could need to be constrained, while his co-founder, Shane Legg, considers a human extinction due to artificial intelligence the top threat in this century. As a result, contingencies have been put in place. DeepMind investor Elon Musk has just spent 10 million on a study of AI dangers, and Hassabis and his co-founders put in the conditions of Google's takeover that there be an outside board of advisors to monitor the progress of the company's AI efforts.