Exclusive | Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and the ‘very worrying’ China-US tech race

Exclusive | Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and the ‘very worrying’ China-US tech race

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the “godfather of AI” because of his revolutionary neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research brought about a paradigm shift that enabled today’s machine learning technology. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield of Princeton…

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Shanghai conference sets stage for US-China face-off in heated race for AI supremacy

Shanghai conference sets stage for US-China face-off in heated race for AI supremacy

Shanghai will host its eighth annual flagship artificial intelligence (AI) conference this weekend as China ramps up competition against the US for supremacy in the fast-developing technology. The three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), with the theme of “Global Solidarity in the AI Era”, will kick off on Saturday with an opening keynote from Premier…

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