>It will be comparable with the industrial revolution. But instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it’s going to exceed people in intellectual ability. We have no experience of what it’s like to have things smarter than us,” he said in a phone interview immediately after the announcement.

> Hinton predicted the technology would revolutionize things such as healthcare, leading to a “huge improvement in productivity.”

> “But we also have to worry about a number of possible bad consequences, particularly the threat of these things getting out of control,” he cautioned.