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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.htmlhttps://archive.ph/TgPyC
The Godfather of A.I. Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
By Cade Metz
May 1, 2023
Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industrys biggest companies believe is a key to their future.
On Monday, however, he officially joined a growing chorus of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign to create products based on generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers popular chatbots like ChatGPT.
Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I. A part of him, he said, now regrets his lifes work.
Dr. Hintons journey from A.I. groundbreaker to doomsayer marks a remarkable moment for the technology industry at perhaps its most important inflection point in decades. Industry leaders believe the new A.I. systems could be as important as the introduction of the web browser in the early 1990s and could lead to breakthroughs in areas ranging from drug research to education.
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'The Godfather of A.I.' Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead (Original Post)
dalton99a
May 2023
OP
"The tech giants are locked in a competition that might be impossible to stop." Exactly.
highplainsdem
May 2023
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highplainsdem
(49,138 posts)1. "The tech giants are locked in a competition that might be impossible to stop." Exactly.
Same thing Max Tegmark has been emphasizing:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217862176
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highplainsdem
(49,138 posts)6. We can't unring the bell, but we can try to get the new laws and
regulations we need asap, and make sure any applicable existing laws and regulations are applied.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,658 posts)7. The original Google corporate motto was "Don't be evil".
I wonder if it's still the same.
2naSalit
(86,997 posts)3. Why does the thought of...
Atlantis 2.0 keep swirling around in my mind?
Kid Berwyn
(15,085 posts)4. Gee.
Maybe we shouldnt be on these deverk ghurgle zhopattest now all is well, fellow citizen.