Geoffrey Hinton started working at Google in 2012 after the company bought his startup in a high-stakes Lake Tahoe auction. Now, the “Godfather of AI” is leaving to take his concerns about the technology race public.
In the short term, he’s worried about not only the propagation of fake photos, videos and texts online but also the effects of that false content on people who can’t tell they’re fake, he told the Times. He also expressed concerns about AI displacing humans in the labor market and, down the road, AI machines learning and then performing unexpected or unplanned behaviors.
Hinton, whose former student Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI, said he believes Microsoft and Google’s race to build up AI technology may be impossible to stop. Those firms, along with other tech titans and a litany of startups, are rushing to capture the profits of AI-enabled products — a race that OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT and partnership with Microsoft shoved into the corporate world and public eye.
The scientist tweeted after the Times article’s publication that he thinks Google has acted responsibly. Google did not respond to SFGATE’s request for comment.Hinton’s journey with Google started in 2012. He and two of his students invented a mathematical system based on neurons in the brain that could identify common objects from a batch of thousands of photos. The breakthrough paper, published that fall, revitalized the research area and altered the course of computing.
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