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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Geoffrey Hinton, a British-Canadian computer scientist whose efforts in the sphere of artificial neural networks earned him the nickname the \u201cGodfather of AI,\u201d recently joined a chorus of voices the world over warning that if and when AI becomes smarter than humans, it could have disastrous consequences.<\/p>\n

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is increasingly “unnerved” by “how smart” artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming.<\/p>\n

The academic, who now lives in Toronto, Canada, spent 50 years of his professional career developing cutting-edge AI. Most recently, the 75-year-old worked for Google, but quit its parent company Alphabet earlier in May.<\/p>\n

He has since been on a crusade of sorts warning of the \u201cdangers\u201d of the very technology that he helped to develop. In the new interview, Hinton recalled how when testing out a chat bot at Google – the PaLM model – it seemed to understand a joke he cracked. PaLM (Pathways Language Model) is a large language model developed by Google AI, with the tech giant since releasing an updated, next-generation model, PaLM 2, boasting “improved multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities.”<\/p>\n

Over the course of this interaction, it dawned on the scientist that the era when AI might be able to “outperform” humans was not that far away.<\/p>\n

‘Existential Threat’<\/p>\n

Referencing chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Hinton underscored that AI was trained to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human can manage.<\/p>\n

“I’m not saying it’s sentient,” he said of AI, but added, “I’m not saying it’s not sentient either.”<\/p>\n

Dismissing claims by opponents that the hue and cry over the dangers of AI were inflated, he added that this was not some science fiction problem, but rather a “serious problem that’s probably going to arrive fairly soon, and politicians need to be thinking about what to do about it now.”<\/p>\n

Hinton’s warning comes as a growing number of technology leaders have sounded the alarm about the potential dangers of a hyper-intelligent AI. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, AI pioneers Yoshua Hengio and Stuart Russell, along with thousands of others, signed a letter in April calling for a six-month pause on the development of more powerful AI systems. However, Hinton was not a signatory on the letter, as he did not think a pause was realistic in the current competitive world of AI.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. Geoffrey Hinton, a British-Canadian computer scientist whose efforts in the sphere of artificial neural networks earned him the nickname the \u201cGodfather of AI,\u201d recently joined a chorus of voices the world over warning that if and when AI becomes smarter than humans, it could have disastrous consequences. 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