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Jeffrey Hinton, also known as the ‘Godfather of AI’, told CNN on Tuesday that he needed to ‘whistleblower’ after worrying about how smart the technology he helped develop was getting. said to have decided.
“I’m just a scientist who suddenly realizes these things are getting smarter than us,” Hinton told CNN’s Jake Tupper in an interview Tuesday. “I kind of want to sound the horn and say that we should seriously think about how to stop these things from ruling us.”
Hinton’s pioneering work on neural networks shaped the artificial intelligence systems that underpin many of today’s products. On Monday, he made headlines as he stepped down from his ten-year job at Google to speak out about growing concerns about technology.
In an interview Monday with The New York Times, which first reported his move, Hinton feared AI could take jobs and create a world where many “no longer know what’s true.” said it does. He also pointed to an astonishing pace of progress that far exceeded his and others’ expectations.
“If it becomes much smarter than we are, it will be very good at manipulation because it has learned from us. And the more intelligent will be controlled by the less intelligent.” There are very few examples of people being harassed,” Hinton told Tupper. on tuesday.
“Because it knows how to program, it will figure out how to get around the restrictions we put on it. It will figure out how to manipulate people the way it wants.”
Hinton isn’t the only tech leader to voice concerns about AI. Many members of the community signed a letter in March calling on the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to suspend training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing “serious risks to society and humanity.”
The letter, published by the Elon Musk-backed nonprofit Future of Life Institute, comes just two years after OpenAI announced GPT-4, an even more powerful version of the technology behind its viral chatbot ChatGPT. Published a week later. In early tests and internal demos, we used GPT-4 to draft lawsuits, pass standard exams, and build working websites from hand-drawn sketches.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, one of the signatories to the letter, appeared on CNN This Morning on Tuesday to reiterate his concerns about the potential spread of misinformation.
“It’s going to be a lot easier for people trying to cheat,” Wozniak told CNN. “We are not making any changes in this regard. We are just assuming that our law will solve it.”
Wozniak also said “some” regulation is probably needed.
Hinton told CNN he did not sign the petition. “I don’t think this progress can be stopped,” he said. “I didn’t sign the petition to stop AI research because if the American people stop, the Chinese people won’t stop.”
But he confessed that he didn’t have a clear answer on what to do instead.
“I don’t know if we can solve this problem,” Hinton told Tapper. “I believe that we should put a lot of effort into thinking about how to solve the problem. At the moment, we don’t have a solution.”
