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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
'Unless You're Sure It Won't Kill You, Worry About It,' Says AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton, Warning Of Superintelligence Risks
"Unless you're sure it won't kill you, worry about it," said Geoffrey Hinton, the "godfather of AI," during an April 26 interview with CBS News, warning that unless humanity can be completely certain AI won't someday turn against it, it should be very worried. He warned that superintelligent AI may arrive sooner than most people expect — and once it does, it could become impossible to control. The physicist, who shares the 2024 Nobel Prize with John J. Hopfield, compared humanity's current approach to AI to raising a tiger cub, unaware it might maul its owner when it grows up. Don't Miss: 'Scrolling To UBI' — Deloitte's #1 fastest-growing software company allows users to earn money on their phones. Hasbro, MGM, and Skechers trust this AI marketing firm — Hinton told CBS News he now believes there's a "good chance" superintelligent AI will exist in 10 years or less — a much shorter timeline than the five to 20 years he projected just last year. He estimated there's a 10% to 20% chance that these systems could eventually seize control. One key factor fueling Hinton's concern is the rapid rise of autonomous AI agents — not just chat bots but systems that can complete complex tasks without human input. Google DeepMind recently launched AlphaEvolve, an AI that independently developed a matrix algorithm that outperforms the 1969 Strassen algorithm in several use cases. Trending: Maker of the $60,000 foldable home has 3 factory buildings, 600+ houses built, and big plans to solve housing — The impact of these agents is already being felt. Hinton pointed to new systems that not only respond to prompts but can navigate websites, schedule tasks, and book tickets on their own. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), for instance, in March unveiled how AI agents are transforming office productivity. Likewise, Hugging Face released an open-source Open Computer Agent in April that simulates user interactions — booking tickets, filling out forms, and navigating sites in real-time. According to Hinton, these advances signal that "things have got, if anything, scarier than they were before." "They're all after the next shiny thing," said Hinton, warning that the race among tech giants and nations to build the most powerful AI makes it "very, very unlikely" that society will be able to avoid creating superintelligence. "The issue," he added, "is can we design it in such a way that it never wants to take control that it's always benevolent."The international AI arms race is intensifying. A March report from Stanford University''s AI Index showed that global AI investment surged past $350 billion last year, with China, the U.S., and the EU ramping up funding for both civilian and military applications. Hinton also voiced frustration with Big Tech's shifting ethics. He said he was "very disappointed" in Google — where he worked for over a decade — for reversing its ban on military use of AI. In February, Google updated its AI principles to remove restrictions on developing systems for weapons and surveillance — a move that stirred concern among researchers and watchdogs. "I wouldn't be happy working for any of them today," Hinton added. Read Next: Invest where it hurts — and help millions heal:. Inspired by Uber and Airbnb – Deloitte's fastest-growing software company is transforming 7 billion smartphones into income-generating assets – Image: Midjourney UNLOCKED: 5 NEW TRADES EVERY WEEK. Click now to get top trade ideas daily, plus unlimited access to cutting-edge tools and strategies to gain an edge in the markets. Get the latest stock analysis from Benzinga? MICROSOFT (MSFT): Free Stock Analysis Report This article 'Unless You're Sure It Won't Kill You, Worry About It,' Says AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton, Warning Of Superintelligence Risks originally appeared on © 2025 Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved. Sign in to access your portfolio
The Hindu
15-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, an AI agent that can generate new algorithms
Google DeepMind has announced a new AI agent that can solve complex coding and math problems, called AlphaEvolve. In a blog posted about the release, the company said that AlphaEvolve can improve the efficiency of data centers, chip design and AI training processes, including 'training the large language models underlying AlphaEvolve itself.' The algorithm generated by AlphaEvolve was deployed at Google's Borg cluster management system for their data centers which led to a 0.7% recovery in their fleet-wide compute resources on average, CEO Sundar Pichai noted. 'AlphaEvolve discovered new efficient algorithm for matrix multiplication, a fundamental problem in Computer Science, improving Strassen's method that has stood for 50 years. Applied to 50 open Math problems, it matched the best known answers 75% of the time and improved on 20%,' Pushmeet Kohli, head of AI for science at DeepMind added. The agent is able to generate code using the lightweight Gemini 2.0 Flash language model after which a self-evaluating method to rank the code in terms of quality. Then, AlphaEvolve picks out the best pieces of code and improves them over multiple rounds. Once it reaches a point where no more suggestions are made, the agent starts using Gemini 2.0 Pro. This reduces the risk of hallucinations which are common even in the most advanced large language models. DeepMind said that AlphaEvolve also made changes to Google's Tensor processing hardware by removing unnecessary bits from the chip's Verilog hardware description.
