Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist known as the 'godfather of artificial intelligence,' recently resigned his high-profile job at Google. Here's a look at his biggest concerns about the future of AI ... and humanity.
SAN FRANCISCO — Geoffrey Hinton, an award-winning computer scientist known as the"godfather of artificial intelligence," is having some serious second thoughts about the fruits of his labors.
Hinton is not alone in his concerns. Shortly after the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI released its latest AI model called GPT-4 in March, more than 1,000 researchers and technologists signed a letter calling for a six-month pause on AI development because, they said, it poses"profound risks to society and humanity."
By contrast, the technology underlying ChatGPT features between 500 billion and a trillion connections, Hinton said in the interview. While that would seem to put it at a major disadvantage relative to us, Hinton notes that GPT-4, the latest AI model from OpenAI, knows"hundreds of times more" than any single human. Maybe, he suggests, it has a"much better learning algorithm" than we do, making it more efficient at cognitive tasks.
"It's a completely different form of intelligence," he told the publication."A new and better form of intelligence." And that might just be the beginning."Don't think for a moment that Putin wouldn't make hyper-intelligent robots with the goal of killing Ukrainians," Hinton said in the article."He wouldn't hesitate."
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