As if it takes one more thing to terrorize us, the latest warning from a scientist at the University of Toronto, who is considered by many to be the founder of artificial intelligence, is the threat of new fears. Add layers.
Others who have warned in the past that thinking machines are a threat to human existence include Jeffrey Hinton, touted as the Godfather of AI at this week’s conference, a little offended by media coverage like Rockstar. There seems to be Last minute conversion. Some say Hinton’s authoritative voice makes a difference.
After his groundbreaking work in machine learning, which made artificial intelligence possible, Hinton says he quit his job at Google so he could speak freely about the monsters he helped create.
“Serious and pretty close”
Not only did Hinton tell an audience of experts at Wednesday’s EmTech Digital conference that AI will soon replace humans, but “I think it’s serious and pretty close.” — He said there was no obvious way to prevent it due to domestic and business competition.
“What we want is some way to make sure they do something useful, even if they’re smarter than us,” Hinton said Wednesday of his change of mind in detailed technical terms. He spoke as he explained.
“But in a world where there are villains who want to create robot soldiers that kill people, you have to try, and that seems very difficult to me.”
“I wish there was a nice, simple solution that I could push, but there isn’t,” he said. “It’s not clear if there is a solution.”
So when is this happening?
“In a few years, they may be much smarter than humans,” he told Nil Köksal on CBC Radio’s As It Happens on Wednesday.
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British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI,” has resigned from his role at Google to warn of potential dangers in a future where artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence. . He tells ‘As It Happens’ host Nil Köksal why he’s worried about ‘the end of the people’.
He may be late to the party, but Hinton’s voice has a new impact on growing fears that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has joined climate change and nuclear Armageddon as a way for humans to obliterate themselves. Add power.
But long before that final day, he worries that new technologies will soon start taking jobs away, leading to a precarious social divide between rich and poor that current politics can’t solve.
The EmTech Digital Conference is the name of the business and academia of AI, an often overlapping field. Most other attendees at the event were there to celebrate the explosive growth of AI research and business, not to warn about AI like Hinton.
Explosive growth in business and research
Leading Wednesday’s list of speakers was another Canadian, Joelle Pineau, a professor at McGill University in Montreal and lead of Meta AI Research. Meta is the parent company of Facebook.
Alluding to a darker possibility, Pinault, like many other speakers at the event, spoke of her work and the surge in research in the AI field in “open source,” a way for software creators to share their discoveries. was enthusiastic about
Addressing the 800 conference attendees, Pinault said, “We see nearly half a million research papers talking about new discoveries in AI. We keep going, with nearly 350,000 projects open source and shared.”
Renowned AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has resigned from Google so he can speak more freely about the potential dangers of advanced artificial intelligence. He is the latest major technologist to call for a slowdown in AI research, warning that AI could surpass human intelligence.
As one expert I spoke to pointed out, AI growth is exponential and has been going on for a long time. But even knowing that, the increasing dollar value of AI to business has taken the industry by surprise.
Eight years ago, when I wrote about the expected growth of AI businesses, I quoted market intelligence group Tractica saying that AI spending “will be worth more than $40 billion over the next decade.” . It seems that it was an underestimate.
“The global artificial intelligence market size will be valued at US$428 billion by 2022,” says the latest report from Fortune Business Insights. “The market is projected to grow from $515.31 billion in 2023.” Estimates for 2030 put him at over $2 trillion.
Yes it’s dangerous but you have to make money
Anyone who follows the business news will find that companies are finding new ways to enter and profit from the space, rather than worrying about how to slow the expansion of AI.
This week, Cohere, a new Toronto AI company in which Hinton owns a stake, announced that it was “in advanced talks” to raise $250 million. Canadian media company Thomson Reuters said it was planning a “deeper investment in artificial intelligence”. IBM is expected to “pause hiring for roles that could be replaced by AI.”The founder of Google DeepMind and LinkedIn has launched his ChatGPT competitor called Pi.
And that was just this week.
Karina Vold is a Canadian expert studying the potential dangers of AI and wrote a paper on how artificial intelligence poses existential risks. She said Hinton’s credibility in the community could have an impact, despite his status that Johnny recently came. Fierce competition among big companies is one of the risks involved in creating something dangerous, he points out.
On Wednesday, Hinton revealed he agreed. That is why the takeover by smart machines, where humans are just one stage in the eventual development of intelligence, is probably unstoppable.
“I think it’s inevitable in a capitalist system, or a competitive system between nations like the United States and China,” he told a high-tech audience on a remote camera with clothes dryers in the background.
A billionaire entrepreneur, Hinton doesn’t seem to have much faith in a society where business plays an important role. Even before the eventual machine takeover he foresees, the power of job-stealing AI could lead to instability, he said.
not everyone benefits
“They’re going to make a lot of jobs more efficient,” Hinton said. It’s going to make the poor poorer.”
“Technology is being developed in a society that was not designed to be used by everyone.”
Hinton remains pessimistic, but if the bad guys trying to exploit AI can be stifled, one possible option is something called “AI alignment,” where intelligent computers are in harmony with humans. It works, or at least it doesn’t wipe out. we out.
Others, including AI investor Ian Hogarth, in a recent article titled “We must slow down the race to godlike AI,” urged companies to help by investing in that strategy as a priority. suggesting that it can be done.
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“My only hope is that if we allow it to be hijacked, it will be bad for us all, so we can get the US and China to agree, as we did with nuclear weapons,” Hinton said. “We’re all in the same boat when it comes to existential threats, so we should be able to work together to stop it.”
Interviewer, moderator, and MIT Technology Review editor Will Douglas Heaven concluded Hinton’s remarks:
