Geoffrey Hinton, also called the “Godfather of AI,” recently voiced concern over the growth of AI technology and its capacity to outperform human intelligence. He explained his intention to speak out and warn caution about the potential of AI to seize supremacy over humans in some recent interviews. Hintons contributions to neural network design have had a substantial impact on modern artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. He recently made headlines for resigning from Google in order to publicly voice his concerns about the rapid advancement of the technology.The potential risks of advanced AI technologiesIn an interview, the prominent AI pioneer expressed his fears about the potential implications of AI growth. He emphasised the risks of job loss due to AI and how it may make the condition of our society way more difficult than it is now in the case of the availability and dissemination of factual information. Hinton also highlighted the exponential evolution of AI and the possibility for AI to manipulate people if it surpasses human intellect. He said that if AI learns to program, it can simply evade constraints and influence people to its advantage.Image: TwitterGeoffrey Hinton also highlighted his fears about powerful people misusing AI, such as Putin or DeSantis. He cautioned that as generative AI tools improve, they may be able to create their own subgoals, allowing machines to make judgements that may be exploited for wrongdoing. Hinton cited Putins creation of hyper-intelligent robots with the intention of killing Ukrainians as an example. He went on to say that micromanaging these robots would be ineffective and that they should be left to figure out how to achieve their objectives on their own. Image: TwitterCall for a halt in the development of advanced AI systemsA number of people in the tech community, including Geoffrey Hinton, have expressed worries about the possibility of adverse impacts of AI technology. In March, a group of industry professionals, including those from Elon Musks Future of Life Institute, advocated for a freeze in the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies owing to the possible threats to humans. The announcement came just two weeks after OpenAI revealed the creation of GPT-4, an even more sophisticated artificial intelligence system than the one that powers ChatGPT, which has shown its capacity to perform jobs like filing lawsuits and generating websites from sketches.Steve Wozniak, Apples co-founder and one of the signers to the letter calling for a halt in the research and development of powerful C systems, recently talked about his concerns about the propagation of misinformation permitted by AI platforms. He cautioned that artificial intelligence technology could make things much simpler for malevolent actors to mislead people and that the present laws may not be adequate to address such a problem. To reduce the possible dangers of AI, Wozniak proposed that some form of legislation may be required everywhere.Geoffrey Hinton, on the other hand, did not sign the letter calling for a halt on the advancement of artificial intelligence, arguing that development cannot be blocked and that if it is stopped in one country, it will continue in another. He did, however, acknowledge not having an obvious remedy to the difficulties raised by AI technology.
