Godfather of AI Predicts Humans Will Become Extinct by 2030 [Video]

Artificial intelligence will wipe out the human race by the year 2030, the ‘Godfather of AI’ has predicted.

Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who has admitted regrets about his part in creating the ‘demonic’ technology, likened its rapid development to the industrial revolution – but warned the machines could “take control” this time.

Telegraph.co.uk reports: Prof Hinton has previously predicted there was a 10 per cent chance AI could lead to the downfall of humankind within three decades.

Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme if anything had changed his analysis, he said: “Not really. I think 10 to 20 [per cent], if anything. We’ve never had to deal with things more intelligent than ourselves before.

“And how many examples do you know of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing? There are very few examples.”

In the 1980s, Prof Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data and identify specific elements in …