After dropping a vow to not employ the technology in weapons, the “godfather of AI” who pioneered Google’s work in artificial intelligence (AI) has has now reportedly accused the corporation of putting money over safety. Additionally, he has accused the company of putting profits ahead of safety.
The move of the tech giant to backtrack on its prior vow was a “sad example” of firms dismissing worries about artificial intelligence, according to Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics at the end of the previous year for his work in artificial intelligence.
This week, Google withdrew from its list of company principles a vow that it had made for a long time that it would not employ artificial intelligence to develop weapons that could do harm to people.
Using the phrase “increasingly complex geopolitical landscape” as an example, the corporation stated that free countries were required to make use of the technology for the goal of fostering national security.
The comments made by Mr. Hinton are the most severe criticism he has directed on Google since he left the business two years ago due to concerns that the technology could not be regulated.
Together with two other students from the University of Toronto, he developed the neural network technology in 2012.
This technology has since formed the basis for the construction of modern artificial intelligence systems.
Following the acquisition of his start-up by the tech giant, he joined Google the following year and contributed to the advancement of the company’s work in artificial intelligence.
These advancements led to developments that contributed to the development of chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
He resigned in 2023, citing his want to be free to criticize the company as well as other businesses when they made irresponsible choices about artificial intelligence.
At the moment, Mr. Hinton expressed that he had a little of remorse for the job he had done during his life, and he was concerned about the existential risk that would be posed by the situation in which these entities became more clever than we are.
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