Megalithic tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft are so obsessed with developing AI that it seems impossible to steer any of them into slowing down and actually thinking about the ramifications. Now one of the most prominent faces in AI research, former Googler Dr. Jeffrey Hinton, has eclipsed the whole spring pace of AI development, finally calling for some kind of global regulation.
According to an interview with New York timesHinton, an award-winning researcher in artificial intelligence, neural networks, and machine learning, is no longer comfortable pushing the boundaries of AI development without any kind of regulation or pause. The 75-year-old Hinton, who has been a principal researcher on any aspect of AI development at Google, came out with this: “It’s hard to see how you can prevent bad actors from using[AI]for bad things.”
He compared himself directly to Robert Oppenheimer, who helped develop the atomic bomb for the United States. While Oppenheimer has made statements about pursuing science for science’s sake, Hinton instead said “I don’t think they should expand (AI) further until they understand if They could control it.” He also shared his fears that artificial intelligence could lead to this Massive functional disorders all over the world.
Hinton earned his “Godfather” title not through any offer you can’t refuse, but through decades of research into artificial intelligence. This came to a head with the neural network he helped build in 2012 with two of his students at the University of Toronto. That network was a machine learning program that could teach itself to recognize things like dogs, flowers, etc., and it became a major starting point for transformer-based AI such as diffusive AI image generators and large language models.
Google originally acquired the company formed by Hinton’s Research in Toronto in 2013. This allowed him to establish a Google Brain component in Toronto Artificial Intelligence Development Oversight Team. Then, Google went into AI spending when it acquired deep learning company DeepMind in 2014. Hinton’s, according to 2021 Wired reportreceived many offers from tech giants including Microsoft and China-based Baidu, both of which Deep in the mud by pushing them into artificial intelligence development. In an interview with CBS NewsHinton compared recent rapid developments in artificial intelligence to “the industrial revolution or electricity – or perhaps the wheel”.
It’s unclear when Hinton took on the role, but only a few months ago he was doing it Referring to AI as a “The preternaturally precocious child.” Compare AI training to caterpillars feeding on nutrients to become butterflies, further contact OpenAI’s GPT-4 Big Language Model “Human Butterfly”.
According to The Times, in April, Hinton told Google he planned to leave, and finally cut the cord after a call with CEO Sundar Pichai last Thursday. Although the New York Times implied that Hinton had left Google specifically to resent his old boss, the Turing Prize winner claimed he only wanted to talk about the dangers of AI, adding, “Google acted very responsibly.”
Hinton’s departure comes at a time of a massive reorganization at his former company After mass layoffs. Last month, Google announced that it was Merging two of the most important AI teams together. Combining Google Brain and DeepMind diff in one unit and It has also reorganized its AI leadership, moving brain leader Jeff Dean to the position of chief scientist, while DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is set to take control of all AI development.
So far, public calls to stall AI development have come from outside the big tech companies. In March, hundreds of top minds and researchers Circulating an open letter calling on companies to pause advanced AI systems. The letter criticized how big tech companies have engaged in an “out-of-control race to develop and deploy more powerful digital minds” that no one can predict or control. Although that does not mean that the people within these companies do not have concerns. A recent report from bloomberg He claimed that people within Google were particularly interested in the company Cool AI. The staff said the chatbot was so bad it was always on Provide misleading information and lies to users.
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