Geoffrey Hinton, together with the “Godfathers of AI”, won the 2018 Turing Award for the seminal work leading up to the current boom in artificial intelligence. Now Hinton is leaving Google and says part of him regrets his life's work.
"I take comfort in the usual excuse: If I didn't do it, someone else would have," said Hinton, who has worked at Google for more than a decade. "It's hard to see how you can stop bad actors from using it for bad things."
Hinton notified Google of his resignation last month and spoke directly with CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday, according to the NYT .
Hinton said the rivalry between the digital giants was causing companies to disclose new AI technologies at dangerously fast rates, putting employees at risk and spreading disinformation.
In 2022, Google and OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, began developing systems that use much larger amounts of data than ever before.
Hinton argues that the amount of data that these systems are capable of analyzing is very large, and in some areas it is superior to human intelligence.
"Maybe what's happening in these systems is actually much better than what's happening in the brain," Mr. Hinton.
While AI has been used to assist human workers, the rapid expansion of chatbots like ChatGPT could endanger jobs.
The expert also expressed concern about the possible spread of disinformation caused by artificial intelligence, warning that the typical person will be affected.
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