Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has left Google and has sounded the alarm on generative AI technologies in an interview with the New York Times. This development has created waves in the tech and AI community, bringing to light the fears Hinton holds about the future of this powerful technology.
Hinton, who is one of the founders of AI neural networks, received a 2020 Turing Award for his efforts in this field. He was also affiliated with OpenAI and worked at Google until recently when he made the decision to jump ship and call out the dangers of generative AI. In his interview, Hinton expressed his regrets about his life’s work and voiced his concerns about the potential for an AI to be used for evil purposes.
Google Chief Scientist, Jeff Dean, responded to Hinton’s resignation by recognizing the need for a responsible approach to AI, continuing to innovate but also learning to understand the risks that come along with technology advances.
OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are some of the principal companies vying to be the first to develop the most advanced AI-based content generation tools, with ChatGPT becoming increasingly popular. Hinton was particularly worried, as AI technology advances so fast, that it will become more difficult to discern what is true, what is false and who is behind it all.
The impact of Geoffrey Hinton’s work can still be felt today, as OpenAI is headed by one of the students Hinton had worked with in the past, Ilya Sutskever. That said, the fact that he regrets his life’s work does come as a shock and shows how worried we all should be concerning the future of AI.
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