AI can outsmart humans and become uncontrollable, warns the Godfather of technology and ex-Google researcher
Jeffrey Hinton, 75, best known for his work on artificial neural networks, in a recent interview with CNBC, once again warned of the dangers posed by artificial intelligence.
For the last 10 years, from 2013 to May 2023, Hinton worked at Google and the University of Toronto. He left his job at the corporation warning about the growing dangers of artificial neural network developments, and noted that he was “now free to speak out about what I think might be dangers.”
Also on Twitter, Jeffrey explained another point from his NYT interview:
“NYT journalist Cade Metz claims that I left Google to criticize Google. In fact, I left to talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence without thinking about how it affects Google.”
“Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technologies may have the ability to outsmart humans in five years,” said Jeffrey Hinton in a Sunday interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes. According to him, if this happens, artificial intelligence may develop further, despite the ability of humans to control it.
“One of the ways these systems can evade control is by writing their own computer code to modify themselves,” Hinton said. “And this is something we should be seriously concerned about.”
