'I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google,' he said.
Geoffrey Hinton, professor at the University of Toronto and the “godfather” of deep learning – a field of artificial intelligence that mimics the human brain – announced his departure from the company on Monday citing the desire to freely discuss the implications of deep learning and artificial intelligence, and the possible consequences if it were utilized by "bad actors."
“I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google," Hinton said on Twitter, adding that "Google has acted very responsibly" in its implementation of the technology. “Geoff has made foundational breakthroughs in AI, and we appreciate his decade of contributions at Google," Google’s Chief Scientist Jeff Dean said in a statement on Monday.
, in order to develop safety protocols. Aside from being the Chief Executive Officer of Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX, Musk co-founded OpenAI, the research lab that created ChatGPT and GPT-4. he found it “hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.”
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