AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton tells the BBC of AI dangers as he quits Google

 

A man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI) has quit his job, warning about the growing dangers from developments in the field.

 

Geoffrey Hinton, aged 75, announced his resignation from Google in a statement to the New York Times, saying he now regretted his work.

 

He told the BBC some of the dangers of AI chatbots were "quite scary". 

"Right now, they're not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be."

 

Full story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65452940

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2023-05-02

Some areas of AI are being used for entirely the wrong purposes... USA government funded military are one of the worst.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

"Right now, they're not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be."

So far, what I have seen is nothing more than a glorified search engine. In fact, because you often need to winnow down the "conversation" with AI, it's better and faster to run a standard online search--excepting google which is full of ads on the first page or two.

Didn't the inventor of the nuclear bomb say the same thing? History repeating itself.

3 hours ago, John Drake said:

So far, what I have seen is nothing more than a glorified search engine. In fact, because you often need to winnow down the "conversation" with AI, it's better and faster to run a standard online search--excepting google which is full of ads on the first page or two.

Agreed. I've several times tried the one that AN gave us and it's a very poor second to Google, But that's only as a search engine, and AI is claimed to be much, much more. Replacing humans entirely for some things. Just because we can invent something doesn't mean we have to use it though, as the AI 'godfather' has realised.

AI taking away jobs isn't quite as scary if you are from centralist countries as the owners will pay tax to be used in social security, healthcare etc. I doubt that would happen in highly capitalist countries where companies tend to keep their profits for shareholders.

AI can be a great tool, but it can also guide weapons, which is where if gets iffy.