Regretting His Life's Work: AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Warns of Global AI Race

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An artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer, Geoffrey Hinton, a.k.a. Godfather of AI, created the technology that became the foundation for the AI systems that the tech industry's biggest companies believe are a key to their future.

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Geoffrey Hinton recently joined a growing chorus of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign based on generative AI.

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In order to speak out about the risks of AI, Dr. Hinton has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than a decade.

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Regretting his life’s work, he believes that if he had not done it, someone else would have.

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It is believed by industry leaders that the new AI systems could be as important as the introduction of the web browser in the early 1990s and could lead to a breakthrough in areas ranging from drug research to education.

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Gnawing at many industry insiders is a fear that they are releasing something dangerous into the wild.

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An open letter is signed by more than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers, calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of new systems because AI technologies pose "profound risks to society and humanity".

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A 75-year-old British expatriate, Dr. Hinton is a lifelong academic whose career was driven by his personal convictions about the development and use of AI.

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In 1972, Dr. Hinton embraced an idea called a "neutral network," which is a mathematical system that learns skills by analyzing data.

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During the 1980s, when he was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, he left and joined the University in Canada as he was reluctant to accept Pentagon funding.

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