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Geoffrey Hinton has long been a leading researcher on the neural networks that led to current AI successes.

But his recent proposal that AI should be constrained by maternal instincts is implausible.

Computers lack the chemical, physiological, and neural mechanisms that support parental care by humans.

Hence AI should be controlled more directly by government regulations.

Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics for his contributions to deep learning methods that are the basis for the dramatic advances in AI that led to ChatGPT and other powerful models. He is sometimes called the “godfather of AI,” which is odd given that AI was born in 1956 when he was 8 years old. But his pioneering work on neural networks has been recognized by other prestigious awards,

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