Geoffrey Hinton, considered one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence (AI) has warned of its dangers as he leaves his job at the giant Google.
“I left so I could talk about the dangers of AI without worrying about the possible impact on Google”said in a tweet Geoffrey Hinton, after the announcement of his departure in the « New York Times ».
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Advances in this sector lead to “profound risks for society and humanity”estimates in the American newspaper Geoffrey Hinton who created a foundation dedicated to AI systems.
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“Look at where we were five years ago and the current situation”he continues, judging ” frightening “ future prospects by making projections on the basis of the progress of recent years. According to him, “it’s hard to see how to avoid bad actors using it for bad things”.
The rapid deployment of more and more artificial intelligence (AI) “general”endowed with human cognitive capacities and therefore likely to disrupt many professions, was symbolized by the launch in March by OpenAI of GPT-4, a new, more powerful version of the natural language model that operates ChatGPT.
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This generative AI interface has been used by millions of people for several months to write essays, poems or even lines of computer code. This launch also spurred competition in this area.
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Geoffrey Hinton also warns, in the “New York Times”, against the misinformation that could be generated by AI.
Hinton refuses to criticize Google
The expert informed Google of his resignation last month, according to the newspaper. In the tweet confirming his departure, he refutes any desire to criticize the tech giant for this decision. “Google behaved very responsibly”he wrote.
In March, billionaire Elon Musk – one of the founders of OpenAI, whose board he later quit – and hundreds of global experts called for a six-month break from research into AIs more powerful than GPT- 4, evoking “major risks for humanity”.
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Geoffrey Hinton was not among the signatories, but he told the “New York Times” that scientists should not ramp up these AIs any further. “before knowing if they are able to control them”.
In 2019, Geoffrey Hinton received, along with two other artificial intelligence specialists, the Turing Prize, the equivalent of the Nobel for computer scientists.
