‘Godfather of AI’ gives ominous warning

A pioneer of artificial intelligence has admitted he regrets his life’s work because of the dangers inherent in AI.

The so-called ‘Godfather of AI’ is the latest expert to ominously flag the technology's existential risk.

Geoffrey Hinton is the brain behind popular platforms such as ChatGBT but partly regrets that work, telling the New York Times that he “consoles” himself with the normal excuse of “If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have”.

Mr Hinton left Google after a decade so he could let the public know the dangers of AI that he helped create.

[SeeTheWholeTruth]

It is funny that people think they are going to do anything about billionaires making AI. They cant even stop Disney from programming their kids or politics.

[killbotone]

Dont worry folks....Elon Musk will be able to control all the AI with his new tech jab booster 💉💉💉💉

[tigran]

Terminator: Rise and Return of Skynet.

[daveo]

The question usually asked of such people is "Can I do this", not "Should I do this".

[eric]

Whatever happens inside future A.I. systems, the strong suspicion is growing that it will not be for the good of humanity . Indeed, some say it will have origins deeply evil and beyond our present abilities to discern . Those building these abominations will have a day of reckoning and will pay a hard price for what they are now planning .

[nourishingword]

Jesus is The Way, Truth & Life! Only through Him we may be saved.

[constancekavanagh]

Remove CPU central Processing Unit and use it to power your community

[oldnutta]

I've seen this movie.
Spoiler doesn't end well for us.

[sarahj]

I used ChatGPT this week, for some work stuff. Its essentially like, instead of going onto Google and looking something up - then having to dig through potentially millions of results for the answer you're seeking, you just whack a direct question into a chat box and shazaam! Up comes the result. No need to go to different websites or search for a number of responses and decide which information sits best, with you.

The terrifying thing about it is that you're given that answer and that's that. Sure, you can ask it to refocus its answer, and it'll give you a slightly different response - but the capacity here for a big corp like Google or a government or whoever to essentially direct you to whatever answer THEY deem to be appropriate, is chilling. Not just within the bounds of politics or religions or ideology, this thing basically replaces our incredible access to ALL RECORDED HUMAN KNOWLEDGE THAT HAS EVER EXISTED - and gives you the 'approved' response.

No wonder governments and corporations are quietly pleased as punch with this concept. They're about to claw back every little bit of freedom we all suddenly gained with the conception of the internet.

Its going to take an absolutely malevolent turn when it does become actual AI as opposed to a super duper search engine that can write a pretty nifty response.

Just go ask ChatGPT something that modern day leftists deem to be offensive - you'll see exactly what I mean.

[takethat]

look for the off switch like your phone & have a normal life

[youtuber]

Once a technological innovation surpasses a certain level of complexity, magnitude and sophistication, could that increase the possibility that it can develop a mind of its own and subsequently even go out of control?
The 2023 article "My Dinner with Sydney..." includes these quotes:
– Progress is based on perfect technology. (Jean Renoir)
– It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. (Clive James)
– I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. (“2001: A Space Odyssey”)

[caulkins]

They're calling this guy the "Godfather of AI"? Surely that would be Marvin Minsky.

[honestaussie]

Will it replace primary school teachers like in I am Mother movie? Maybe it will need a friendly looking talking digital head first though.

[gigglesmcgee]

*Creepy Alexa laugh* resistance is futile

[jaguargirl]

I sometimes really wish I was dead but unfortunately it is not happening yet. This world is going apeshit, so it is better to go to the 'other side' seriously

[tennesseenate]

Good job haven't these people ever watched the terminator movies

[colemanfairweather]

The concern is not whether AI machines are, or can be smarter than, humans. It's the control of ideas and whether those ideas can be allowed to manifest in reality which should be the main concern - like humans, from your perspective, it's not how a robot "thinks", but how it can act. For example, whether an AI entity can remove all your accounts because it thinks you are a right wing extremist by analysing your internet browsing habits, or has plucked your name from a reference table loaded up from a data mining exercise that determines you accessed a neo-nazi website 100 times in the last 30 days, or it's actually a junior admin person sitting behind a keyboard taking revenge on someone they don't like doesn't matter - it's the organisation enabling the capability and controling the "morality" algorithms, whether human, computerized or AI, which is the prime concern. You need to look at the motivation of that organisation and it's "buyers". Despite the incalculable damage to communities thanks to the Wuhan Lab incident, that lab and others like it scattered around the world are no doubt continuing on with their gain of function research. Do those scientists stop to consider the moraity of it, having just witnessed what could happen with just a mild rogue virus? Did the funders suddenly get a pang of guilt and stop the money flow? If anything, the opposite - they saw how lucrative it would be if there was another pandemic and you were a drug company. Same with AI - the virus spread around the world in weeks; a rogue AI, given enough rope, could hang the world in a few microseconds, so could a handful of coordinated human hackers. If the US DOD allows it's missiles to be ignited by any other means than a guy standing at the bottom of the silo with a box of matches, then that ignition is open to cyber attack, including the method of how that brave dude got the message to light the fuse in the first place - you allow wire/wireless connectivity of any form, a rogue signal can be passed down it. It all boils down to who provides the rope, not whether the entity pulling the rope is AI or human. All I'm saying is, ominous warnings are fine, but for those with money, power and influence, AI is just another tool in the arsenal, and ain't much we can do about it; we can't change their moral compasses - adverse consequences to any business are just "risks on a spreadsheet", and if you go high enough up the company chain, you'll eventually find someone who will sign off on all of them. After the first atom bomb exploded, many thought that nuclear war would end us all in a few years - we managed to survive that for at least 70 years, and here we are again - is AI an existential threat? sure, like 1000 other things, that doesn't mean we give up and climb back into our caves.

[PortalThroughHistory]

It’s time for everyone to turn to Jesus

[ricardop]

Elon musk told everyone for years now don’t come crying 🤣

[LordVelaeryyn]

"Smarter than people" dictates they have intelligence, which they don't, they're banks of information, two very different things.
They can't aim or use 'knowledge' via self or learnt tasks that aren't preprogrammed, and self learning AI don't learn like we do, they "Learn" on a preprogrammed path to do A to B
They're machines, they aren't living or magic.
And no, we're nowhere near actual true self learning AI in That sense. If you're using that logic then your phone is more intelligent than you, which it isn't, its IQ would literally be 0, it has just has information on it.

Wish people would quit spreading that bullshit everywhere