{"id":914,"date":"2023-05-08T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=914"},"modified":"2023-05-20T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T18:10:00","slug":"godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-interviews-implications-artificial-intelligence-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-interviews-implications-artificial-intelligence-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"“Godfather of artificial intelligence” Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and “blows the whistle” on AI advancement: “very few examples of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\nWhy the \u2018Godfather of AI\u2019 decided he had to \u2018blow the whistle\u2019 on the technology <\/a>
\n\u201cI\u2019m just a scientist who suddenly realized that these things are getting smarter than us,\u201d Hinton told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper in an interview on Tuesday. \u201cI want to sort of blow the whistle and say we should worry seriously about how we stop these things getting control over us.\u201d

\n\nHinton\u2019s pioneering work on neural networks shaped artificial intelligence systems powering many of today\u2019s products. On Monday, he made headlines for leaving his role at Google, where he had worked for a decade, in order to speak openly about his growing concerns around the technology.

\n\nIn an interview Monday with the New York Times, which was first to report his move, Hinton said he was concerned about AI\u2019s potential to eliminate jobs and create a world where many will \u201cnot be able to know what is true anymore.\u201d He also pointed to the stunning pace of advancement, far beyond what he and others had anticipated.

\n\n\u201cIf it gets to be much smarter than us, it will be very good at manipulation because it will have learned that from us, and there are very few examples of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing,\u201d Hinton told Tapper on Tuesday. \u201cIt knows how to program so it\u2019ll figure out ways of getting around restrictions we put on it. It\u2019ll figure out ways of manipulating people to do what it wants.\u201d

\n\nQ&A: Google\u2019s Geoffrey Hinton \u2014 humanity just a ‘passing phase’ in the evolution of intelligence<\/a>
\nThe Google engineering fellow who recently resigned was key to the development of generative AI and chatbots; he now believes he underestimated the existential threat they pose, and once AI can create its own goals, humans won’t be needed.

\n\nGeoffrey Hinton, a professor and former Google engineering fellow, is known as \u201cgodfather of artificial intelligence” because of his contributions to the development of the technology. A cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, he pioneered work on developing artificial neural networks and deep learning techniques, such as back propagation \u2014 the algorithm that allows computers to learn. Hinton, 75, is also a 2018 winner of the Turning Award, colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize of computer science.

\n\nWith that background, Hinton made waves recently when he announced his resignation from Google and wrote a statement to The New York Times warning of the dire consequences of AI and of his regret over having been involved in its development. Hinton spoke this week with Will Douglas Heaven, senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review, at the publication\u2019s EmTech conference on Wednesday. The following are excerpts from that conversation…

\n\n“It\u2019s as if some genetic engineers said, ‘We\u2019re going to improve grizzly bears; we\u2019ve already improved them with an IQ of 65, and they can talk English now, and they\u2019re very useful for all sorts of things, but we think we can improve the IQ to 210.’… these things will have learned from us by reading all the novels that ever were and everything Machiavelli ever wrote [about] how to manipulate people. And if they\u2019re much smarter than us, they\u2019ll be very good at manipulating us. You won\u2019t realize what\u2019s going on. You\u2019ll be like a two-year-old who\u2019s being asked, \u2018Do you want the peas or the cauliflower,’ and doesn\u2019t realize you don\u2019t have to have either. And you\u2019ll be that easy to manipulate.”

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