AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has left Google to warn of the dangers of that technology

The British Geoffrey Hintonone of the great pioneers in the development of artificial intelligence (IA), left his job at Google In order to more freely warn about the dangers that these new technologies represent, as he explained in an interview published this Monday by The New York Times.

Known to many as the “godfather” of AI, Hinton said that, at 75, he regrets spending his entire career developing AI. “I console myself with the usual excuse: if it wasn’t me, someone else would have done it“, he indicated.

Far from being an isolated episode, his voice of alarm adds to the warnings that other experts have issued in recent months, especially following the launch and dissemination of Chat GPT.

“It’s hard to imagine how bad actors could be stopped from using it for bad things,” he noted in the interview, in which he warned against the excessive speed with which progress is being made.

“Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now. Take the difference and propagate it forward. This scares‘ said Hinton, who received the Princess of Asturias Award for scientific and technical research along with three other AI pioneers for their work.

Meanwhile, he expressed his near-term fears about the possibility of the internet being flooded with them texts, photos and videos false and that people may not be able to tell what is real from what is not. He explained that too these technologies can replace many workers and, later, even pose a threat to humanity.

“The idea that these things actually they could become smarter than peopleSome people believed it. But most people thought it was too far. I thought it was too far. I thought they were missing between 30 and 50 or even more. Obviously, I don’t think so anymore“, He added.

In your opinion, work should stop in this area until it is clear whether it will be possible to control the AI, an idea that is in line with other warnings from personalities in the technology sector who have asked for a temporary suspension of the experiments.

Via Twitter, Hinton then wanted to clarify that he is not leaving Google to be able to criticize the company, but to be able to talk about the dangers of AI without having to worry about the impact that these views would have aroused in the company where he worked, a company which according to him “acted very responsibly”.

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The billionaire head of Twitter and Tesla has again expressed concern about the danger of artificial intelligence (AI), stating so it has “the potential to destroy civilization”.

“AI is more dangerous than, say, bad aircraft design or bad manufacturing maintenance or bad car manufacturing, in the sense that it has the potential – however small the probability, but it is not trivial – to destroy civilization,” he noted.

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