The pioneering artificial intelligence researcher says part of him regrets his life’s work
Mr. Hinton told The New York Times that he informed Google last month he would be stepping down from the company, where he has served as a vice-president and engineering fellow. Chief among his concerns is that generative AI systems can overwhelm the internet with fake photos, videos and text, impairing people’s ability to differentiate truth from fiction. Mr. Hinton told the newspaper he is also worried about job losses and the potential for AI to outsmart humans in the longer term.
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people – a few people believed that,” he told the Times. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. … Obviously, I no longer think that.”only the latest AI researcher to call out the dangers of the technology publicly. But as one of the most influential figures in the field, both in Canada and abroad, his voice carries a lot of weight. Mr. Hinton, 75, is an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and the chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute at Toronto, and is perhaps best known for his work on artificial neural networks, which learn to complete tasks by analyzing copious amounts of data.
One of his breakthroughs happened in 2012, when he built a neural network that could train itself to identify common objects in pictures with a high degree of accuracy, helping pave the way for the generative AI that exists today. Google soon
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