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Potential doom! You know how we humans love to worry about things that might kill us? Well, move over climate change and asteroid impacts   we've got a hot new contender in the existential threat department: artificial intelligence And who better to tell us about our impending obsolescence than Professor Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" himself? The AI Apocalypse: Now with 20% More Existential Dread! Now, I don't know about you, but when someone nicknamed " Godfather " starts warning us about something, I tend to pay attention. It's like when your mechanic makes that sucking-air-through-teeth sound while looking at your car – you know something's not quite right. According to our dear Professor Hinton, we're looking at a 10-20% chance of AI wiping out humanity in the next three decades.  That's right, folks – better odds than winning the lottery, but slightly worse than your chances of finding a parking space downtown during r...

Or: How Machines Learned to Be Smarter Than Us (And Are Now Plotting Our Doom) Let’s talk about AI, shall we? Artificial Intelligence. The thing that’s going to take over our jobs, our relationships, and possibly our entire existence. Or so they say. And in this case, they might be right. How Machines Learned to Be Smarter Than Us You see, the Nobel Prize for Physics was recently awarded to Geoffrey Hinton, often called the "godfather of AI." This is a big deal. It’s like giving the keys to the kingdom to a really smart robot. Now, I know what you’re thinking: "AI? That’s just a fancy word for a really smart robot that can beat me at chess." Well, yes and no. It's a little more complicated than that. AI is basically like a really smart kid who's been fed every Wikipedia article ever written and then given a supercomputer to play with. The result? A digital overlord that can do everything from writing poetry to driving cars (and sometimes even better than ...