A Google AI 'godfather' says machines could match human abilities in 5 years

YouTube/IPAMGeoffrey Hinton splits his time between Google and academia. Geoffrey Hinton, an artificial intelligence (AI) expert who splits his time between Google and the University of Toronto, believes machines could match human abilities in five years. Hinton, known as the godfather of "deep learning," said the most powerful machines are still about a million times smaller than the human brain. They only have the equivalent of around a billion synapses (the connections between the neurons in the brain), compared to 1,000 trillion in the human brain. But machines are becoming more sophisticated every year.