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Computer scientist and AI pioneer Jeffrey Hinton left his position as vice president of Google in April to warn humanity about the dangers of AI. Hinton is concerned that Google is abandoning its previous restrictions on public AI releases to compete with other models, which may lead to a wave of disinformation and uncontrolled behavior. He is also worried about the problem of replacing jobs with AI and creating fully autonomous weapons. Google’s Chief Scientific Officer, Jeff Dean, responded that the company continues to follow a “responsible approach” and monitors “emerging risks.” In March, AI researchers called for an “immediate suspension” of training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 due to their potential risks to society and humanity.
Jeffrey Hinton left Google due to ethical problems with AI technology
Jeffrey Hinton, a computer scientist and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, left his position as vice president of Google in April. According to Hinton, he took this step to warn humanity about the dangers of AI.
The researcher is concerned that Google is abandoning its previous restrictions on public AI releases in an effort to compete with ChatGPT, Bing and similar models.
Hinton suggests that in the near future, generative AI may trigger a wave of disinformation. “You will no longer know what is true,” he said.
Hinton is also concerned about the problem of replacing jobs with AI.
In addition, the scientist is concerned about the possibility of creating fully autonomous weapons and the tendency of AI models to demonstrate uncontrolled behavior based on training data.
Hinton says his position began to change last year, when Google, OpenAI and other companies began building artificial intelligence systems that he believes can sometimes surpass human intelligence. According to him. AI has advanced rapidly over the past five years — and it’s “terrifying” what could happen in the next five years.
Google’s Chief Scientific Officer, Jeff Dean, responded that the company continues to follow a “responsible approach” and monitors “emerging risks.”
Hinton has devoted his career to the study of neural networks and is best known for developing an object recognition system in 2012. Google bought Hinton’s startup DNNresearch in 2013.
In March, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, philanthropist Andrew Yang, and about a thousand other artificial intelligence researchers wrote an open letter calling for the “immediate suspension” of training AI systems “more powerful than GPT-4.” The letter states that artificial intelligence systems with “human-competitive intelligence” could pose “serious risks to society and humanity.” It calls on laboratories to suspend training for six months.
