{"id":12881,"date":"2023-05-02T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1396018"},"modified":"2023-05-02T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:17:57","slug":"ai-godfather-quits-google-and-warns-of-dangers-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=12881","title":{"rendered":"AI \u2018godfather\u2019 quits Google and warns of dangers ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr Geoffry Hinton, widely referred to as AI\u2019s \u201cgodfather,\u201d has confirmed in an interview<\/a> with the New York Times that he has quit his job at Google \u2014 to talk about the dangers of the technology he helped develop.<\/p>\n

Hinton\u2019s pioneering work in neural networks<\/a> \u2014 for which he won the Turing award in 2018<\/a> alongside two other university professors \u2014 laid the foundations for the current advancement of generative AI.<\/p>\n

The lifelong academic and computer scientist joined Google in 2013, after the tech giant spent $44m to acquire a company founded by Hinton and two of his students, Ilya Sutskever (now chief scientist at OpenAI<\/a>) and Alex Krishevsky. Their neural network system ultimately led to the creation of ChatGPT and Google Bard.<\/p>\n

But Hinton has come to partly regret his life\u2019s work, as he told the NYT. \u201cI console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn\u2019t done it, somebody else would have,\u201d he said. He decided to leave Google<\/a> so that he could speak freely about the dangers of AI<\/a> and ensure that his warnings don\u2019t impact the company itself.<\/p>\n

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In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffreyhinton) May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to the interview, Hinton was prompted by Microsoft\u2019s integration of ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, which he fears will drive tech giants into a potentially unstoppable competition. This could result in an overflow of fake photos, videos, and texts to the extent that an average person won\u2019t be able to \u201ctell what\u2019s true anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

But apart from misinformation, Hinton also voiced concerns about AI\u2019s potential to eliminate jobs and even write and run its own code, as it\u2019s seemingly capable of becoming smarter than humans much earlier than expected.<\/p>\n

The more companies improve artificial intelligence<\/a> without control, the more dangerous it becomes, Hinton believes. \u201cLook at how it was five years ago and how it is now. Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The need to control AI development<\/h2>\n

Geoffry Hinton isn\u2019t alone in expressing fears over AI\u2019s rapid and uncontrolled development.<\/p>\n

In late March, more than 2,000 industry experts and executives in North America signed an open letter, calling for a six-month pause in the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4, ChatGPT\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n

The signees \u2014 including researchers at DeepMind, computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and Elon Musk \u2014 emphasised the need for regulatory policies, cautioning that \u201cpowerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the Atlantic, ChatGPT\u2019s growth has stirred the efforts of EU and national authorities to efficiently regulate AI\u2019s development without stifling innovation.<\/p>\n

Individual member states are trying to oversee the operation of advanced models. For instance, Spain, France, and Italy have opened investigations into ChatGPT over data privacy concerns \u2014 with the latter being the first Western country to regulate its use after imposing a temporary ban<\/a> of the service.<\/p>\n

The union as a whole is also moving closer to the adoption of the anticipated AI Act \u2014 the world\u2019s first AI law by a major regulatory body. Last week, Members of the European Parliament agreed to advance the draft to the next stage<\/a>, called trilogue, in which lawmakers and member states will work out the bill\u2019s final details.<\/p>\n

According to Margrethe Vestager<\/a>, the EU\u2019s tech regulation chief, the bloc is likely to agree on the law this year, and businesses could already start considering its implications.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith these landmark rules, the EU is spearheading the development of new global norms to make sure AI<\/a> can be trusted. By setting the standards, we can pave the way to ethical technology worldwide and ensure that the EU remains competitive along the way,\u201d Vestager said<\/a> when the bill was first announced.<\/p>\n

Unless regulatory efforts in Europe<\/a> and the globe are sped up, we might risk repeating the approach of Oppenheimer<\/a> of which Hinton is now sounding the alarm: \u201cWhen you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.\u201d<\/p>\n

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