hello. the man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence has quit his job at google, warning of the dangers of ai. doctor geoffrey henton s pioneering research on aland neural networks has paved the way for current work on al, but he says he now regrets his work and is worried the technology will flood the internet with misinformation. google has responded in a statement, saying. doctor henton has told the bbc how these systems can know so much. the kind of these systems can know so much. tie: kind of intelligence we these systems can know so much. tue: kind of intelligence we are developing is very different from the intelligence we have. we are biological systems, and these are digital systems, and the big difference is that with digital systems, you have many copies of the same set of weights, the same model of the world. and all these copies can learn separately but share their knowledge instantly, so it s as if you had 10,000 people, and whenever one person
things wrong, an awful lot. it gets things wrong, an awful lot. it gets things wrong in really, really quite surprisingly dumb ways. so this technology is not going to sort of crawl out of the computer and take over. that isn t the nature of the technology. and i do worry that we obsess around things like that, which is very natural for people to do, it distracts us from the much more near term concerns that we should be worried about now. close to half a million sudanese have had to flee their homes since fighting erupted around two weeks ago. among them, around 100,000 have fled to neighbouring countries, according to neighbouring countries, according to figures from the un. in the capital khartoum, fighting is ongoing despite promises of a ceasefire, as foreign nationals attempt to flee. a ship arrived in jeddah from saudi arabia in saudi arabia on monday, with evacuees including 100 us citizens. the final two evacuation flights are british nationals also left on monday. those un
good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a fa