{"id":413,"date":"2018-11-19T06:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T06:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/19\/whats-bigger-than-fire-and-electricity\/"},"modified":"2018-11-19T06:50:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T06:50:29","slug":"whats-bigger-than-fire-and-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/19\/whats-bigger-than-fire-and-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Bigger than Fire and Electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes artificial intelligence could have \u201cmore profound\u201d implications for humanity than electricity or fire, according to recent comments.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai also warned that the development of artificial intelligence could pose as much risk as that of fire if its potential is not harnessed correctly.<\/p>\n<p> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"><\/ins> <\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote><p>     <span>&#8220;<\/span>AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on, It\u2019s more profound than, I don\u2019t know, electricity or fire.<span>&#8221;<\/span>   <\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"source\">&mdash; Sundar Pichai, Google CEO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pichai went on to warn of the potential dangers associated with developing advanced AI, saying that developers need to learn to harness its benefits in the same way humans did with fire.<\/p>\n<p>Google has invested heavily in artificial intelligence research, having acquired the London-based startup DeepMind for \u00a3300 million in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>DeepMind is often cited by AI experts and academics as the leading pioneer in AI research for its work in developing an algorithm capable of beating human champions at the ancient board game Go, as well as its work with the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>                                                              <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"whats-bigger-than-fire-and-electricity.002.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techclot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/whats-bigger-than-fire-and-electricity.002.png?w=640\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>                                                                                  \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/artificial-intelligence-more-profound-electricity-or-fire-says-google-boss-786531\" class=\"sqs-block-button-element--small sqs-block-button-element\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artificial-intelligence.blog\/news\/whats-bigger-than-fire-and-electricity\">2018 Artificial Intelligence (AI) News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes artificial intelligence could have \u201cmore profound\u201d implications for humanity than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1487,1488,827,802,1486],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-bigger","tag-electricity","tag-fire","tag-than","tag-whats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techclot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/whats-bigger-than-fire-and-electricity.002.png?fit=1000%2C654&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3orZX-6F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}