The Worst Day of Your Life by Edward Packard

Several days later, 19 current and former leaders of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a 40-year-old academic society, released their own letter warning of the risks of A.I. technologies pose “profound risks to society and humanity.” Hinton said.Īfter the San Francisco start-up OpenAI released a new version of ChatGPT in March, more than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of new systems because A.I. “It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” Dr. Somewhere down the line, tech’s biggest worriers say, it could be a risk to humanity. can already be a tool for misinformation. systems could be as important as the introduction of the web browser in the early 1990s and could lead to breakthroughs in areas ranging from drug research to education.īut gnawing at many industry insiders is a fear that they are releasing something dangerous into the wild.

groundbreaker to doomsayer marks a remarkable moment for the technology industry at perhaps its most important inflection point in decades. Hinton said during a lengthy interview last week in the dining room of his home in Toronto, a short walk from where he and his students made their breakthrough.ĭr. “I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have,” Dr. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work.

Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than a decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I. On Monday, however, he officially joined a growing chorus of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign to create products based on generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers popular chatbots like ChatGPT.ĭr. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I.

Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer.

The Worst Day of Your Life by Edward Packard