Google’s AI giant calls it quits, warns about misinformation crisis

The 75-year-old is particularly concerned about the misinformation crisis that generative AI-based technology could create. Hinton emphasized that the Internet would be filled with false images, videos and text, and that ordinary people might no longer be able to understand what is true.

It is worth mentioning that many pictures of eminent people have surfaced on the Internet which are not real. These pictures have been created using image-to-text generation software such as DallE and MidJourney.

Hinton was not part of the earlier letters signed by artificial intelligence experts to temporarily halt AI research.

In the interview, Hinton said he is also concerned about the risks that AI-based applications could pose to people’s jobs. Speaking to the Times, Hinton said that while technologies such as ChatGPT complement human work, they may soon replace ‘hard work’. Hinton listed paralegals, personal assistants and translators as some of the jobs that could be replaced by AI.

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Speaking to the BBC about new age artificial intelligence technology, Hinton said, “The issue is now that we’ve found it works better than we expected a few years ago, we can’t see the long-term risks of things more intelligent than us.” What do you do to reduce it? take control”

Delving deeper into the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems compared to humans, Hinnon said, “I have come to the conclusion that the kind of intelligence we are developing is very different from the intelligence we have. We are biological systems, and they are digital systems. ,

“And the big difference is that with digital systems you have multiple copies of the same set of weights, the same model of the world. And all these copies can learn separately, but share their knowledge. So It’s like you have 10,000 people and whenever one person learns something, everyone automatically knows it. And so these chat apps can learn a lot more than any post.” Hinton added

Hinton became fascinated with the idea of ​​a ‘neural network’ during his undergraduate days at the University of Edinburgh. Soon after, neural networks became the core of his life’s work.

According to the Times, Hinton and two of his students, Ilya Sutskever (chief scientist at OpenAI) and Alex Krushevsky, started a neural network that can identify common objects like flowers, dogs and cars by analyzing thousands of photos.

Reportedly, Google acquired the company for $44 million and the neural network was later used to build powerful AI tools such as Bard.