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Friday, 11 October 2024

Nobel Prize Winner Warns of AI Threat After Leaving Google

 Two men who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics are pioneers in artificial intelligence (AI), and one of them is often called its “godfather.”

According to Reuters, American physicist John Hopfield and AI expert Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the prestigious prize this week. Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” made groundbreaking contributions in 2012 that helped shape modern neural networks. However, in 2023, he left his role at Google to join others warning about the dangers of AI.

In an interview with the New York Times last year, Hinton explained that he once believed Google was a “proper steward” of AI. That view changed when Microsoft teamed up with OpenAI to release GPT-4, the language model behind ChatGPT.

Although Hinton didn’t think AI was near its peak at the time, the 76-year-old recognized the significant shift triggered by the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, reports futurism.com...<<<Read More>>>...