On October 8, U of T Computer Science Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton was sitting in a cheap hotel room in California when ...

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British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said we need to be “very careful” and “very thoughtful” about the development of artificial intelligence (AI) which he says is a ...

Tonight, mostly clear skies are expected, with just the odd patch of cloud now and then. It will be dry and cold. Winds will be gentle. Wednesday It is going to be a dry and cold day tomorrow ...

TORONTO - When Geoffrey Hinton strode across the Stockholm Concert Hall stage Tuesday to receive his Nobel Prize for physics from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, he was beaming. It has taken ...

The old frequent-flyer adage is that sitting at the back of the plane is ... it’s quite likely that things won’t go well.” Geoffrey Thomas knows a thing or two about aircraft safety, too.

Last year, scientists left the clock sitting at 90 seconds to midnight - the closest humanity had come to destruction since the creation of the atomic bomb. But with war still raging in Ukraine ...