[Manthink]

Dr Geoffrey Hinton, whose research led the way for AI systems like ChatGPT, has quit Google. The 75 years old "Godfather of AI", said he quit to speak freely about the dangers of AI, and in part regrets his contribution to the field. He had worked at Google a decade ago to help develop the company’s AI technology.



https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...e-learning

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/techn...inton.html

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When I watch an interview with him just a month ago about ChatGPT and reason why he got into AI research, he sounded very humble and soft-spoken and explained he was more interested in how our Brain works. So it is a shock the recent successes and advances in AI has led him to make a U-turn towards the development..

[Manthink]

Human creating AI is like a 5 years old playing with a loaded gun...

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NYT (30 May 2023)

The open letter was signed by more than 350 executives, researchers and engineers working in A.I.

The signatories included top executives from three of the leading A.I. companies: Sam Altman (Boss of OpenAI), Demis Hassabis, (Google DeepMind CEO) and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, two of the three researchers who won a Turing Award for their pioneering work on neural networks and are often considered “godfathers” of the modern A.I. movement, signed the statement, as did other prominent researchers in the field. (The third Turing Award winner, Yann LeCun, who leads Meta’s A.I. research efforts, had not signed as of Tuesday.)


This group of industry leaders warned on Tuesday that the artificial intelligence technology they were building might one day pose an existential threat to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/techn...rning.html

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it is inevitable.