An artificial intelligence trailblazer, dubbed the “godfather of AI”, has issued a warning about the technology he helped create.
Geoffrey Hinton is the latest to join a growing list of experts who are sharing their concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence.
Mr Hinton went so far as leaving his job at Google to speak openly about his worries for the technology and the real threat it could pose to humanity.
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people – a few people believed that,” he said in an interview with The New York Times.
“But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”
What is AI?
AI stands for “Artificial Intelligence.” It refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation. AI can be classified into different categories, such as rule-based systems, machine learning, and deep learning, depending on the underlying algorithms and techniques used to create intelligent systems. The goal of AI is to create machines that can learn and improve their performance over time, and ultimately, to achieve human-level or even superhuman intelligence.
Dr Frankenstein I presume
The possible limitations of the technology that Mr Hinton and other experts in the field are worried about include the potential for AI systems to make errors, to provide biased recommendations, to threaten privacy, to empower bad actors with new tools, and to have an impact on jobs.
In 2019, Mr Hinton, along with scientists Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, won the Turing Award – the tech industry’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize, for their advancements in AI.
At the time they were open about their concerns, but remained optimistic about the potential use of the technology to detect earthquakes, floods and health risks.
At the end of April, more than 1,000 tech giants, including Elon Musk, signed a letter calling for a halt to AI development.
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