On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, Ali Hussein via KICTANet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Good people

The scientist, known as the 'Godfather of AI', has quit Google where he used to work.

He clarified in a tweet that he quit so that he can speak freely on the dangers of #AI without worrying about how that would impact Google.

Geoffrey Hinton, who alongside two other so-called “Godfathers of AI” won the 2018 Turing Award for their foundational work that led to the current boom in artificial intelligence, now says a part of him regrets his life’s work.

“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” said Hinton to The New York Times. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

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