Geoffrey Hinton, one of founders of artificial intelligencetells The Guardian about the inherent dangers of “artificial intelligence” and digital “brains” that can replace biological ones.

The 75-year-old, also referred to as the “godfather of artificial intelligence,” who in 2018 received the highest honor in computer science, the Turing Award, along with Meta’s Yan LeCun and University of Montreal’s Joshua Bengio, says: will respond to requests for help from Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and the White House.

“I’m a socialist. ‘I think private ownership of the media and ‘computer media’ is bad,” the London-born psychologist and computer scientist says days after leaving Google to warn the world about the dangers of digital intelligence.

Since Monday, when he expressed fears that the development of artificial intelligence could lead to the end of civilization in the 20-year horizon, he gets a new request to speak every two minutes– he admits himself.

But when asked for specific advice, he is at a loss for words, he says. “I’m not a political person. I’m just someone who suddenly realized that something really bad could happen. I wish I had a good decision to stop burning coal and everything will be fine. But I don’t see such a simple solutions,” he says.

“If you look at what Google is doing in the context of the capitalist system, you will see that it behaves as responsibly as you might expect. However, this does not mean that it is trying to maximize its utility for everyone: It is legally bound to maximize its utility to its shareholders.this is something completely different,” he says.

Last year, the rapid development of AI models convinced Hinton to take the threat that “digital intelligence” could one day replace human biological intelligence much more seriously.

“For the past 50 years, I have been trying to build computational models that can learn in much the same way that the brain learns, to better understand how the brain learns. But recently I decided that maybe these big models are actually much better than the brain,” he says.

“The reason I’m not optimistic is that I don’t know of a single example where smarter things are controlled by less smart ones. We have to imagine something that is smarter than us, in the same context as we are, smarter than a frog,” he adds.

It is noted that Dr. Hinton announced his resignation, saying that he now regrets his work. He also stressed that some of the risks chat bots artificial intelligence ispretty scary” and added that “at the moment they are not smarter than us, I can say that. But I think they might soon“.

Source: Guardian