Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "father of artificial intelligence," left Google in early May 2023, prompting concerns about the risks and security threats associated with increasing dependence on artificial intelligence.

Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, resigned from Google to freely express his concerns about AI's potential dangers.

Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, warned that AI could lead to human extinction, citing a 10% chance within three decades, and called for global action to mitigate this risk.

Geoffrey Hinton warns that there is a 10% chance of human extinction due to artificial intelligence within the next three decades.

Geoffrey Hinton believes that careful development and regulation of AI are necessary to ensure it is used ethically and does not pose a harm to humanity.

"Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, has expressed concerns about the risks of AI, including its potential impact on employment and its development in a society that may not benefit everyone. Other experts, such as Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, have shared similar concerns and called for strong regulation of the AI sector."

"IBM estimates that AI could replace 7,800 jobs, according to a report."

The rapid development of artificial intelligence systems has led to concerns among tech giants about losing control, with pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton warning about the potential dangers of unmanaged AI growth.

Geoffrey Hinton is 75 years old.

Geoffrey Hinton believes that AI poses a risk of "human extinction" if not managed carefully, as indicated by his signing of an open letter along with other experts.

Geoffrey Hinton mentioned that AI could have negative impacts, including promoting false information, loss of employment opportunities, and being used for evil purposes like influencing elections and warfare.

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "father of artificial intelligence," left Google in early May 2023, prompting concerns about the risks and security threats associated with increasing dependence on artificial intelligence.

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Trends Center for Research and Consulting has released a research paper titled “Artificial Intelligence: Enemy or Friend, ” which focuses on the potential risks of AI applications and what action is required before it is too late.
The paper prepared by A.D.
Ahmed Khamis Khalil Al-Janabi said that artificial intelligence is one of the most important of these changes that have brought about transformations in all areas of life, and captured the attention of researchers, it is the product of systems that are intelligent, and behave in the way that humans behave, in terms of learning and understanding.
It is also a form of intelligent computing, in terms of relying on computer software, which can sense, think, learn, and act.
According to the study, AI technologies are mainly aimed at protecting human beings and saving their lives, saving them time and effort, transforming raw information into valuable knowledge, guiding humanity towards new horizons of discovery, characterized by business in the shortest time, in addition to flexibility and ease of testing, ability in hazardous conditions, and achieving good returns.
She pointed out that it is possible to distinguish between three images of artificial intelligence; specialized, general, and super specialized, meaning systems that can perform specific and clear tasks, and artificial intelligence is the type that can work with the ability of similarity of the ability of intelligence in terms of thinking, and the creation of super artificial intelligence, which may exceed the level of human intelligence, and can perform tasks This type has many characteristics that must be included, such as the ability to learn, plan, communicate, and make judgments.
The paper stated that artificial intelligence raises many risks and security and ethical threats in the case of increasing dependence on it in human life, and the huge output of applications is a prelude to a soft war between machine and human.
The resignation of Geoffrey Hinton, who is called the “father of artificial intelligence ” from Google in early May 2023 is a harbinger that alerts us in our Arab countries and the world to these risks related to artificial intelligence.
The paper stressed that artificial intelligence is a reality and its challenges must be prepared for by a team of Arab scientists specialized in artificial intelligence technology, stressing that the time has come to conduct more research on the risks and challenges of artificial intelligence techniques and cyber attacks, and to direct the attention of the international community towards the need to develop a unified legal framework governing the use and regulation of these technologies, and determine appropriate sanctions in case of misuse.
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What did Hinton, the renowned British-Canadian expert reveal about AI that caused widespread concern?

Exposed serious AI risks, shocking the tech world and affecting major company stocks.

Why did Hinton leave Google when he helped develop AI but later grew concerned about its dangers?

Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, warned that AI could lead to human extinction, citing a 10% chance within three decades, and called for global action to mitigate this risk.

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(CNN) -- A new report commissioned by the State Department paints a worrying picture of the "catastrophic" national security risks posed by rapidly evolving artificial intelligence and warns the federal government is running out of time to avert disaster.
The findings were based on interviews with more than 200 people over more than a year, including senior executives from leading AI companies, cybersecurity researchers, weapons of mass destruction experts, and national security officials within the government.
The report, released this week by AI Gladstone, categorically suggests that more advanced AI systems could, in the worst case scenario, “pose an extinction-level threat to the human race. ”
The US State Department did not respond to a request for comment.
The warning in the report is another reminder that while the potential of AI continues to captivate investors and the public, there are real risks as well.
Jeremy Harris, CEO and co-founder of Gladstone AI, told CNN on Tuesday: “Artificial intelligence is already an economically transformative technology.
It can allow us to cure diseases, make scientific discoveries, and overcome challenges we once thought insurmountable. ”
"But it could also bring serious risks, including catastrophic risks, that we should be aware of."
“A growing body of evidence – including empirical research and analysis published at the world ’ s most important AI conferences – suggests that above a certain threshold of capability, AI systems are likely to become out of control. ”
White House spokeswoman Robin Patterson said President Joe Biden ’ s executive order on AI was “the most significant action any government in the world has taken to deliver on the promise and manage AI risk. ”
“The President and Vice President will continue to work with our international partners and urge Congress to pass bipartisan legislation to manage the risks associated with these emerging technologies, ” Paterson said.
A clear and urgent need to intervene
Researchers warn of two major dangers posed by large-scale artificial intelligence.
First, Gladstone AI said the most advanced AI systems could be armed to cause irreparable damage.
Second, there are particular concerns within AI labs that they may at some point “lose control ” over the very systems they are developing, with“ potentially devastating consequences for global security. ”
"The rise of artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence has the potential to destabilize global security in ways reminiscent of the introduction of nuclear weapons," the report said, adding that there is a risk of an AI "arms race", conflict and "deadly accidents the size of weapons of mass destruction."
The Gladstone AI report calls for radical new steps aimed at countering this threat, including the launch of a new AI agency, the imposition of “emergency ” regulatory safeguards and restrictions on how much computer power can be used to train AI models.
The authors wrote in the report: "There is a clear and urgent need for the intervention of the United States government."
The report notes that although the work was produced for the State Department, its views “do not reflect the views ” of the agency or the U.S. government in general.
A government notice issued in 2022 by the State Department ’ s Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund Office shows that the government is offering to pay up to $250,000 for an assessment of “proliferation and security risks ” associated with advanced AI.
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Harris, Gladstone ’ s executive director of artificial intelligence, said his team ’ s “unprecedented level of access ” to public and private officials had led to startling conclusions.
Gladstone AI said it spoke to technical and leadership teams from chat owner OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Facebook parent company Meta and Anthropic.
In a video posted on Gladstone AI ’ s website announcing the report, Harris said: “Along the way, we ’ ve learned some disturbing things.
Behind the scenes, the safety and security situation in advanced AI seems largely inadequate compared to the national security risks that AI may soon pose somewhat. ”
The Gladstone AI report said competitive pressures were driving companies to accelerate AI development “at the expense of safety and security, ” increasing the likelihood that more advanced AI systems would be“ stolen ” and “weaponized ” against the United States.
The findings add to a growing list of warnings about the existential risks posed by AI — including from even some of the industry ’ s most powerful figures.
Nearly a year ago, Jeffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of artificial intelligence, ” quit his job at Google and sounded the alarm about the technology he helped develop.
Hinton said there is a 10% chance that artificial intelligence will lead to human extinction within the next three decades.
Hinton and dozens of AI industry leaders, academics and others signed a statement in June saying that “mitigating the extinction risk of AI must be a global priority. ”
Business leaders are increasingly concerned about these risks – even as they invest billions of dollars in AI.
Last year, 42% of CEOs surveyed at last year ’ s Yale CEO Summit said AI has the potential to destroy humanity five to ten years from now.
abilities similar to human abilities to learn.
Gladstone AI in its report pointed to some prominent individuals who have warned about the existential risks posed by artificial intelligence, including Elon Musk, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lena Khan, and a former senior executive at OpenAI.
Some employees at AI companies share similar concerns privately, according to Gladstone AI.
“An individual at one of the well-known AI labs expressed the view that if a specific next-generation model of AI were launched without access restrictions, it would be ‘ very bad ’, because the model ’ s potentially convincing ability could ‘ break democracy ’ if leveraged in areas such as election interference or voter manipulation, ” the report said.
Gladstone said she had asked AI experts in some labs to share their personal estimates privately about the likelihood that an AI incident could lead to “irreversible global effects ” in 2024.
Estimates ranged from 4 percent to as much as 20 percent, according to the report, which notes that the estimates were informal and likely to be heavily biased.
One of the biggest surprises is how quickly artificial intelligence is evolving — specifically artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical form of artificial intelligence that has a human-like or even superhuman learning ability.
The report says AI is seen as “the main driver of catastrophic risks caused by loss of control, ” and notes that OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Nvidia have all publicly stated access to AI by 2028 — though others believe it ’ s far beyond.
Gladstone AI points out that disagreements over AI timelines make it difficult to develop policies and safeguards, and there is a risk of a slowdown in regulation as technology evolves.

What did Hinton, the renowned British-Canadian expert reveal about AI that caused widespread concern?

Exposed serious AI risks, shocking the tech world and affecting major company stocks.

What future risk did Hinton warn about AI?

What risks did the global summit report highlight about AI?

Creating malicious software for cyberattacks, potentially posing an existential threat if humans lose control.

Geoffrey Hinton warns that there is a 10% chance of human extinction due to artificial intelligence within the next three decades.

Geoffrey Hinton believes that careful development and regulation of AI are necessary to ensure it is used ethically and does not pose a harm to humanity.

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Jeffrey Hinton, nicknamed “the godfather of artificial intelligence, ” has called on governments, companies and developers to think carefully about how best to develop the technology safely.
According to CBS, Hinton believes that AI has the potential to bring good and harm and said that now is the time to conduct experiments to understand AI and pass laws to ensure the technology is used ethically.
Hinton warned that AI has the potential to replace humanity one day, saying: “I ’ m not saying it ’ s going to happen if we can stop them from wanting it, it ’ s going to be great, but it ’ s not clear that we can stop them from wanting it. ”
For now, Hinton believes AI is intelligent and that systems can understand and think, but not like humans.
But he warned that there is a good chance that AI models such as ChatGPT will be able to think better than humans.
Hinton believes AI will lead to increased productivity and efficiency, but he is concerned about the potential risk that many people may lose their jobs because of AI, and there may not be enough jobs to replace lost jobs.
He is also concerned about fake news adopted by AI, how biased AI can harm people looking for jobs, and law enforcement ’ s use of technology and autonomous robots on the battlefield.
Hinton said he believes AI systems will eventually have self-awareness and awareness, adding: “I think we ’ re moving into a period where we may have, for the first time ever, things that are smarter than us. ”
Despite his concerns about the potential dangers of AI, Hinton said he has no regrets, in part because of the huge potential the technology has for good.
“We ’ re entering a period of great uncertainty, where we ’ re dealing with things we ’ ve never dealt with before and usually, the first time you ’ re dealing with something completely new, you misunderstand it, ” he said.
We can ’ t afford to be wrong about these things. ”
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Nick Clegg, Meta ’ s head of global affairs, said current AI models are “completely stupid ” and not powerful enough to pose any form of obvious threat to humanity.
Clegg, a former British deputy prime minister who joined Facebook ’ s parent company Meta in 2018, told BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday that the “hype ” behind the potential pitfalls of AI“ predates technology ”.
While discussing the launch of Meta ’ s open source Llama 2 language model, or “chatbot ” as the technology has become known, Clegg said that“ existential warnings ” that came in sync with the current generation of AI “relate to models that don ’ t currently exist. ”
“A vision in which AI develops autonomy and agency on its own is not possible, ” Clegg said, adding that“ the models we make available to open sources are far from that.
In fact, she ’ s stupid in many ways. ”
Clegg ’ s comments come after Meta President Mark Zuckerberg recently revealed that a commercial version of the Llama 2 language model will be released online for free, giving tech startups and other companies a low-cost alternative to Open AI ’ s ChatGPT and Google Bard.
The recent emergence of AI language models has posed many existential questions as they relate to the creation and distribution of disinformation online.
He also raised concerns about the potential impact on employment in certain industries.
Jeffrey Hinton, a former Google engineer who left the company earlier this year and called him the “godfather of artificial intelligence, ” said in May that he believed the technology was“ being developed in a society not designed to be used for the benefit of everyone. ”
Technology leaders such as Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak were among the co-signatories of an open letter earlier this year calling for strong and independent regulation of the AI sector.
Other critics, such as computer science expert Wendy Hall, have argued that Meta ’ s offering of open-source blueprints for its language model is “somewhat like giving people a model to build a nuclear bomb. ”
But Clegg believes the open-source release of Llama 2 will provide support for technological “wisdom of the masses ” — a scenario he says is better than leaving artificial intelligence in the hands of tech giants.
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What did Hinton, the renowned British-Canadian expert reveal about AI that caused widespread concern?

Exposed serious AI risks, shocking the tech world and affecting major company stocks.

What does Hinton warn could happen to AI if companies and regulators fail to implement effective rules and controls?

What risks did Hinton associate with AI's rapid advancement?

"IBM estimates that AI could replace 7,800 jobs, according to a report."

What risks did Hinton associate with AI's rapid advancement?

The rapid development of artificial intelligence systems has led to concerns among tech giants about losing control, with pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton warning about the potential dangers of unmanaged AI growth.

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The genie of artificial intelligence.
One of the Arab fairy tales says that a hunter launched a genie trapped in his bottle hundreds of years ago, and after he got out of control went on a search for tricks to return him to his prison in vain, and this is what is happening now with the world ’ s tech giants, who have moved from the race to dominate artificial intelligence systems to try to restrain this “monster ” that is moving faster than everyone expected.
This tremendous acceleration in the development of artificial intelligence systems since the end of 2022, appeared after the launch of the chat robot “Chat GBT ” for OpenEye with the support of Microsoft, to follow the search giant Google system rival named“ Bard ”, and infected other giants of technology such as Amazon and the engine “Yandex ” Russian and the readiness of Chinese companies such as the engine“ Baidu ” to launch similar robots.
The artificial intelligence systems that are being developed suggest that the world is coming to a stage where the science fiction films we ’ ve been watching on TV will become a reality and the machine will replace the human mind in managing everything.
This artificial intelligence relies on algorithms that allow the machine to learn on its own, by simulating neurons in the human body, the artificial neural networks that have been developed have the ability to learn in a generative way, extract basic characteristics from the data and make decisions.
What is strange about this feverish race between the giants of technology is that his godparents began a counter-campaign to warn him, and went so far as to consider him a danger to humanity, and some even went on to expect the extinction of the human race because of it, and that it matches the nuclear danger and deadly epidemics.
This prediction of humanity ’ s black future came not from ordinary observers or soothsayers, but from the Canadian scientist Jeffrey Hinton called the “godfather of artificial intelligence, ” who since the 1970s has been obsessed with how the human brain works and tries to imitate it on computers.
In recent years, Hinton ’ s research has made a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, so that one of his students was behind the launch of the famous chat robot “ChatGT ”, while he worked for years at“ Google ” and decided to resign months ago, and announced his “regret ” for the development of these programs, and his expectations that the machine will outperform man after nearly 50 years, but now he warns that the current race will make it a reality.
The diagnosis made by this scientist makes sense, given that the consequences of the widespread uncontrolled use of AI robots are visible, and there have been many cases around the world of the misuse of these programs.
Several universities have found cases of cheating using chatbots, and using them even to write books and research, and also imagine that there are those who ask “Chat JBT ” for example for fatwas on doctrinal issues, note that these programs do not differentiate during the provision of answers between publications for someone through networks and research in a book published by a famous scientist.
The widespread use of these robots in the coming years may even lead to the disintegration of societies due to the infusion of a large amount of inaccurate information and fake news, due to the common belief that what these platforms offer is objective truth, as well as the threat of science itself, because people in the past learn through observation and careful research and rely on logic and critical thinking.
There have also been concerns that machines will replace humans in future jobs and even create robotic armies and dispense with the human element in wars, and the concept of sovereignty that we know now has changed with the dominance of technology companies in the world.
This seems to be the point in the calls launched by the godfathers of artificial intelligence in America and the West to freeze its development until the establishment of controls, and that the logic of “monopoly ” is the main driver of this step, given that eastern countries such as China and Russia have taken parallel steps in this field.
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What did Hinton, the renowned British-Canadian expert reveal about AI that caused widespread concern?

Exposed serious AI risks, shocking the tech world and affecting major company stocks.

What does Hinton warn could happen to AI if companies and regulators fail to implement effective rules and controls?

Becomes uncontrollable
Poses ethical risks

What risks did the global summit report highlight about AI?

Creating malicious software for cyberattacks, potentially posing an existential threat if humans lose control.

Geoffrey Hinton is 75 years old.

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Content: AI Godfather Hinton: Artificial intelligence threatens humanity more urgently than climate change
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Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), said in an interview with Reuters today that the threat posed by AI to humans may be “more urgent ” than climate change.
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Hinton, 75, who is regarded as one of the “godfathers ” of artificial intelligence, recently announced his departure from Alphabet, a 10-year tech company, because he wanted to make the risks of artificial intelligence public without involving employers.
Hinton ’ s research has been recognized as an important contribution to the development of contemporary AI systems. In 1986, he co-authored the influential paper Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors, which set a milestone in the development of neural networks supporting AI technology. In 2018, he received the Turing Award for his research breakthroughs. And...
Hinton is one of a growing number of technology leaders who are concerned that machine intelligence will surpass humans and ultimately control the planet, and are openly raising concerns about the potential threat posed by AI.
“I ’ m not trying to downplay the importance of climate change, nor am I saying we shouldn ’ t worry about climate change, which is also a big risk, ” Hinton said.
But I think (artificial intelligence) may be more urgent in the end. "
“When it comes to climate change, making recommendations is simple: just stop carbon emissions.
If you do that, things will get better.
And when it comes to (artificial intelligence), there ’ s nothing we can do about it. ”
OpenAI, a U.S. artificial intelligence research lab sponsored by technology company Microsoft, launched ChatGPT, a chatbot that took the first shot at the AI race last November and quickly became the fastest-growing app in history, with 100 million monthly active users in just two months.
In April, thousands of people signed an open letter calling on all AI labs to suspend development of systems more powerful than OpenAI ’ s recently launched GPT-4 for at least six months, including social media CEO Elon Musk, AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell.
Hinton shares the concerns of the co-authors, who fear AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, but he disagrees with the suspension of research.
He said, “It ’ s not practical.
I agree that this is an existential risk, and it ’ s close, and it ’ s time to put a lot of effort into understanding what we can do. ”
Following the publication of the joint letter, the 12 members of the European Parliament called on leaders such as U.S. President Joe Biden and European Union Executive Committee Chairman Ursula von der Leyen to convene a summit to discuss how to control the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT, which are developing faster than expected.
“Technology leaders know best about [artificial intelligence], and politics must be involved, ” says Hinton.
This matter concerns all of us, so we must all think carefully. ”
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With the advent of generative AI, there has been a lot of discussion about what benefits AI can bring, but it is also worth paying attention to what risks AI may bring.
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The scariest warning about generative AI should be that last year many experts, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, signed an open letter saying that AI risked “human extinction. ”
However, in an interview with the media this year, Altman said that one of the biggest misconceptions about AI is to treat it as a “creature ” and confuse the impression of AI in science fiction movies with reality.
Altman emphasized that AI is a tool, and while there are risks, it is a completely different level of proposition than the risks that can come from treating AI as a “living thing. ”
Human extinction may be too far to worry about, but the Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review published a report last year that identified seven major risks to generative AI, a report co-authored by eight experts and scholars that has been cited multiple times, and listed the seven risks:
The AI market lacks regulation.
The quality of the content produced by AI can be low, with false information and algorithmic bias.
AI replaces labor, causing a lot of unemployment.
The application of AI can violate personal privacy, abuse personal data, and be used to strengthen the monitoring of society.
The spread of AI tools has made it easier for the general public to be manipulated, the spread of deliberately fabricated information has accelerated, and traditional good values have been disintegrated.
AI development will exacerbate inequality between social classes and the gap between the rich and the poor.
The development of AI has brought technological pressure, forcing people to constantly adapt and adapt to the changing technology.
It should be easy to understand the negative social impact of the above risks, such as causing massive unemployment and increasing the gap between the rich and the poor.
As for why generative AI creates false information and exacerbates bias, the analysis of the Harvard Business Review has explained that the way generative AI outputs content is like a “black box ”. Sometimes scientists themselves can ’ t explain why AI produces these content, but AI has the ability to make false information also speak the truth.
Another important reason why AI regulation is not easy is that it is difficult to know who is responsible when AI makes mistakes, the “black box ” that dominates AI algorithms consists of many elements, how much is based on company decisions and how much is generated by AI itself, and it is not so easy to clarify, resulting in a so-called common responsibility, and there is also a complex issue of responsibility division between data providers and AI developers.
In addition to the risks brought by AI itself, experts have also found that the process of AI development has brought a new problem, which is the huge consumption of water resources.
Some scholars estimate that by 2027, in order to meet the needs of AI development, the water consumption is equivalent to 4.2 billion to 6.6 billion square meters of water, which is almost half of the annual water consumption of the entire British people.
Considering that global water resources are already precious, and that the climate crisis may further lead to water scarcity, the wisdom of accelerating water consumption in order to develop AI has also been discussed.
Kate Crawford, a professor at USC Annenberg School who specializes in the social impact of AI, believes that the planet is already facing a climate crisis, with many regions experiencing severe droughts and scarce drinking water, and does not want to blindly embrace AI without being sure how much impact it will have on the environment.
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What did Hinton, the renowned British-Canadian expert reveal about AI that caused widespread concern?

Exposed serious AI risks, shocking the tech world and affecting major company stocks.

What future risk did Hinton warn about AI?

What risks did the global summit report highlight about AI?

Creating malicious software for cyberattacks, potentially posing an existential threat if humans lose control.

Geoffrey Hinton mentioned that AI could have negative impacts, including promoting false information, loss of employment opportunities, and being used for evil purposes like influencing elections and warfare.

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Content: Geoffrey Hinton: GPT-4 is 100 times more knowledgeable than any human
Author: MIAO Yongqi
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Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "godfather of artificial intelligence", announced Monday that he has resigned from Google. He has devoted his life to developing artificial intelligence systems, saying he "regrets his life's work" and is wary of the potential dangers of AI development.
In another recent interview, Hinton further talked about why he is afraid of AI development.
Hinton, 75, left Google a few days after the news broke in an interview with MIT Technology Review senior editor Will Douglas Heaven.
Hinton points out that the new generation of AI language models, especially the GPT-4, which came out in March, made him realize that these machines were moving in a direction that was much smarter than he thought, and he was afraid of these developments.
He is best known for a technique he proposed in the 1980s (with two colleagues) called backpropagation.
In short, the algorithms that allow machines to learn support almost all of today ’ s artificial neural networks, from computer vision systems to large language models.
It wasn ’ t until the 2010s that Hinton and his two recent graduates developed a “neural network ” that demonstrated its power, stronger than any computer ’ s ability to identify objects in images, and trained it to predict the next letter of a sentence, a precursor to today ’ s large-scale language patterns.
One of the students was Ilya Sutskever, the founder of OpenAI, who led the development of ChatGPT.
“We first thought it might be great. ”“ But it ’ s going to take a long time to realize that it needs to be done on a large scale to get good results. ”
In the 1980s, the discussion of “neural networks ” was considered a joke.
But Hinton doesn ’ t think so, and is working on this, software that mimics the abstract human brain and uses code as a connection between neurons. For 40 years, Hinton has viewed artificial neural networks as a clumsy attempt to mimic biological neural networks.
Now he thinks things have changed: he thinks there are better results when trying to mimic the behavior of the biological brain.
“It ’ s scary when you see it with your own eyes, ” he said.“ It ’ s a sudden change. ”
So why did ChatGPT surprise Hinton, too? He explained that the human brain has about 100 trillion connections, and “large language models have up to 500 billion, up to a trillion. ”
However, the knowledge of GPT-4 is a hundred times greater than that of any human.
So maybe it actually has a better learning algorithm than we do. "
He also pointed out that apart from the ability to learn, the ability to communicate is another kind of point.
“If you or I learn a new thing and want to teach it to another person, we can ’ t just send them a copy. ”
But artificial neural networks can do it.
It ’ s like there are 10,000 people here, and when one person learns a new thing, the other 9,999 people all learn it at the same time.
Hinton now believes that there are two types of intelligence: animal brains and artificial neural networks.
“It ’ s a completely different kind of intelligence.
“A new, better intelligence. ” Hinton believes that whether superintelligence is good or bad depends largely on whether you ’ re an optimist or a pessimist, and he says,“ mildly depressed, ” “that ’ s why I ’ m afraid. ”
“Whether these things are going to be smarter than us, I suddenly changed my mind. ”
I think they are very close to us now and they will be much smarter than us in the future, ” he said.
“How do we survive? ” he is particularly worried that people will use the tools he has developed to change the trajectory of human life, including elections and wars.
He said that he hopes to continue talking about AI security after leaving office and spend more time on “more philosophical work ”.“ As long as I ’ m still employed at Google, I can ’ t say what I want to say, ” he said. “I have a lot of good things to say about Google, and it would be more convincing if I wasn ’ t at Google. ”
Who is the godfather of AI computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton?
Hinton pioneered the basic technology of AI systems and became interested in artificial neural networks when he was a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh in 1972. In 2018, he and two experts in the field of deep learning were awarded the Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize in Computing ”.
What are the main concerns of “AI Godfather ” Geoffrey Hinton about the development of artificial intelligence?
He believes that the most direct impact is to promote the dissemination of false information and the loss of employment opportunities, and also worries about the use of this tool for evil, such as influencing elections and using it in war.

What did Hinton, the renowned British-Canadian expert reveal about AI that caused widespread concern?

Exposed serious AI risks, shocking the tech world and affecting major company stocks.

What does Hinton warn "bad actors" could use AI for?

To win wars or manipulate the electorate.

What does Hinton warn could happen to AI if companies and regulators fail to implement effective rules and controls?

What risks did Hinton associate with AI's rapid advancement?

Misuse in elections
Job loss
Misinformation
Misuse in warfare