Famous scientist Geoffrey Hinton, who is considered the father of artificial intelligence, won the 2018 Turing Award for his work in the field of artificial neural networks, and has been working for Google since 2013, announced that he resigned from his position at the company. However, the reason for this resignation was also quite remarkable.
The scientist, who gave an interview to The New York Times about the resignation process, laid the foundations of artificial intelligence with two of his students in 2012. Developing a special neural network, the team managed to create a system that analyzes thousands of photos and learns to categorize photos that contain objects such as cats, dogs or flowers. This system laid the foundation for artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT or Midjourney that we all use today.
But Geoffrey Hinton isn’t too happy with his work!
Hinton, in an interview with The New York Times, stated that he was worried about the destinations of artificial intelligence and that he regretted the work he had done. However, the scientist said, “I console myself with the usual excuse: If I didn’t do it, someone else would.” He underlined that there is no way to avoid it.
The main thing that scares Geoffrey Hinton is what artificial intelligence will be used for. “It’s hard to see how you can prevent bad actors from using it for bad things.” By using his expressions, he actually expressed his greatest concern. We would be doing him an injustice if we said that the scientist was not right.
So why did he resign from Google?
According to Geoffrey Hinton’s interview, the resignation actually happened last month. Explaining the reasons for this, the scientist said, “I resigned to talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence comfortably.” says. According to the scientist, if he had made critical sentences about artificial intelligence while working within Google, Google would have been affected as well. Hinton is happy that he will no longer think of Google when criticizing AI.
The father of artificial intelligence is afraid of the problems it can cause!
Geoffrey Hinton has some concerns with artificial intelligence. One of them is fake content to be produced with artificial intelligence tools. However, this is the easy part. Hinton says that artificial intelligence is growing at an unprecedented rate, with the difference between what it offered five years ago and what it has now. With this; Mentioning that artificial intelligence will reduce the need for human power, the scientist says that artificial intelligence is trained with very large data, and sometimes they gain unexpected teachings. According to the scientist, this situation may one day cause artificial intelligence to threaten humanity as a whole. Of course, for the moment, all this does not go beyond conjecture. Geoffrey Hinton hopes it stays that way…
We had artificial intelligence set up a party!
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