“Right now, they’re not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be,' Geoffrey Hinton said.
. “Right now, they’re not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be.”, Hinton also pointed to “bad actors” that may use AI in ways that could have detrimental impacts on society — such as manipulating elections or instigating violence.Hinton, 75, says he retired from Google so that he could speak openly about the potential risks as someone who no longer works for the tech giant.
Google confirmed that Hinton had retired from his role after 10 years overseeing the Google Research team in Toronto. “For good or for not, what the chatbot moment has done is made AI a national conversation and an international conversation that doesn’t only include AI experts and developers,” said Alondra Nelson, who until February led the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and its push to craft guidelines around the responsible use of AI tools.
A number of AI researchers have long expressed concerns about racial, gender and other forms of bias in AI systems, including text-based large language models that are trained on huge troves of human writing and can amplify discrimination that exists in society.
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