The rapid development of artificial intelligence has scared its developer. With his resignation, he has started to oppose this development.
In recognition of his work, Geoffery Hinton has received the Turing Award, considered the Nobel of information technology. Julian Simmonds/Shutterstock
The doctor considered to be the father of artificial intelligence Geoffrey Hinton, 75, has resigned from Google. The reason for his resignation, he said, was that he could speak openly about the dangers of artificial intelligence. According to Hinton, he also regrets his life’s work for the development of artificial intelligence.
Hinton’s concerns about artificial intelligence are primarily about how the technology can be used to produce believable fake content, including videos and images. In addition, artificial intelligence could hinder the labor market.
In particular, chat programs that use artificial intelligence like ChatGPT are already “quite scary”, according to him. Artificial intelligence could become dangerous if it were used for the wrong purposes.
– I have come to the conclusion that the intelligence we develop is very different from our intelligence, Hinton stated to the BBC.
Told about it Guardian.
The stone starts spinning
Artificial intelligence originated from a research group led by Hinton at the University of Toronto in 2012. At that time, he, along with two of his students, Ilya Sutskever mixed Alex Krishevskydeveloped a neural network that can analyze thousands of images and learn to recognize things.
Today, that neural network is known as artificial intelligence.
Google spent $44 million to buy the technology company founded by Hinton and his students. This has eventually led to the development of more advanced AIs such as ChatGPT and Google Bard.
In recognition of their work, Hinton and two of his collaborators also received the Turing Award in 2018. The award is also known as the Nobel of information technology.
Even last year, Hinton was of the opinion that Google would be a good host for artificial intelligence. Then Microsoft started to compete with them and incorporated artificial intelligence into its Bing search engine.
– The technology giants are locked in a competition for artificial intelligence. This competition may be impossible to stop, Hinton states.
Some of the worries are already true
In addition to Hinton, several experts have also warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence. In addition, the European police authority Europol has also stated that even more egregious online crimes could be machined with artificial intelligence.
The Guardian reports, that some of Hinton’s worries have already come true. For example, a picture of the Pope in a plush Balenciaga jacket made with Midjourney artificial intelligence has been completely real to many internet users.
It is increasingly difficult to verify content made with artificial intelligence. According to Hinton, artificial intelligence will also replace part of human work before long. According to him, assistants and translators will be one of the first professional groups that could be displaced by artificial intelligence.
In the future, artificial intelligence could also potentially develop its own code and integrate it into its systems. In military technology, this could be catastrophic.
– I thought that it would take 30 or 50 years for artificial intelligence to become smarter than humans. I don’t think like that anymore, Hinton states.
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