The “Godfather of AI,” Geoffrey Hinton, stated on Monday that he quit his position at Google in order to speak out about the “dangers” of the technology he helped create.
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Artificial intelligence systems, the driving force behind many of today’s products, were shaped by Hinton’s groundbreaking work on neural networks.
He spent ten years working part-time on Google’s AI development projects, but he has subsequently developed reservations about the field and his contribution to its progress.
IANS quoting Hinton from a news report in New York Times said, “I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have.” “I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google,” Hinton said in a tweet, adding: “Google has acted very responsibly.”
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In a tweet on Monday, Hinton said he left Google so he could speak freely about the risks of AI, rather than because of a desire to criticise Google specifically.
Hinton’s decision to step back from the company and speak out on the technology comes as a growing number of lawmakers, advocacy groups and tech insiders have raised alarms about the potential for a new crop of AI-powered chatbots to spread misinformation and displace jobs, IANS added.
Late last year, the buzz surrounding ChatGPT rekindled a competition among tech businesses to create and implement comparable AI solutions in their offerings.
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At the forefront of this development are OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google, IBM, Amazon, Baidu, and Tencent are also developing related technologies.
