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Date: May 02, 2023 at 18:54:39
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Artificial intelligence pioneer leaves Google and warns about technolo |
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html |
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The "godfather of AI" is issuing a warning about the technology he helped create.
Geoffrey Hinton, a trailblazer in artificial intelligence, has joined the growing list of experts sharing their concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. The renowned computer scientist recently left his job at Google to speak openly about his worries about the technology and where he sees it going.
“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” Hinton said in an interview with The New York Times.
Hinton is worried that future versions of the technology pose a real threat to humanity.
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” he said in the interview. “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.”
Hinton, 75, is most noted for the rapid development of deep learning, which uses mathematical structures called neural networks to pull patterns from massive sets of data.
Like other experts, he believes the race between Big Tech to develop more powerful AI will only escalate into a global race.
Hinton tweeted Monday morning that he felt Google had acted responsibly in its development of AI, but that he had to leave the company to speak out.
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Date: May 30, 2023 at 08:14:24
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Artificial intelligence pioneer leaves Google and warns about... |
URL: https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/artificial-intelligence-threatens-extinction-18125404.php |
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Artificial intelligence threatens extinction, experts say in new warning
KELVIN CHAN and MATT O'BRIEN
May 30, 2023
Updated: May 30, 2023 8:05 a.m.
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OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman, the founder of ChatGPT and creator of OpenAI speaks at University College London, as part of his world tour of speaking engagements in London, Wednesday, May 24, 2023.
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman, the founder of ChatGPT and creator of OpenAI speaks at University College London, as part of his world tour of speaking engagements in London, Wednesday, May 24, 2023.Alastair Grant/AP
LONDON (AP) — Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind.
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” said the statement posted online.
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, were among the hundreds of leading figures who signed the statement, which was posted on the Center for AI Safety's website.
Worries about artificial intelligence systems outsmarting humans and running wild have intensified with the rise of a new generation of highly capable AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.
The latest warning was intentionally succinct — just a single sentence — to encompass a broad coalition of scientists who might not agree on the most likely risks or the best solutions to prevent them, said Dan Hendrycks, executive director of the San Francisco-based Center for AI Safety.
“There’s a variety of people from all top universities in various different fields who are concerned by this and think that this is a global priority,” Hendrycks said. “So we had to get people to sort of come out of the closet, so to speak, on this issue, because many were sort of silently speaking among each other.”
More than 1,000 researchers and technologists, including Elon Musk, had signed a much longer letter earlier this year calling for a six-month pause on AI development because, they said, it poses “profound risks to society and humanity.”
Countries around the world are scrambling to come up with regulations for the developing technology, with the European Union blazing the trail with its AI Act expected to be approved later this year.
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O'Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.
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Date: May 04, 2023 at 09:05:42
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Artificial intelligence pioneer leaves Google and warns about... |
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I sense more fake news will be generated from AI... the lines between
what is real and what is illusion become further blurred.
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