Geoffrey Hinton has been studying artificial intelligence for over 40 years. Recently, he expressed concern about the possibility of AI wiping out humanity. However, he clarified that this threat does not come from AI like ChatGPT, but from “general artificial intelligence”. Where AI is able to do all the work by itself.
Hinton believes that it would take 20 to 50 years to achieve such a functional AI, as initially thought. But now he thinks it could be just 20 years or less, which is quite worrying. He believes that we need to think hard about how to control this technology.
Hinton is more concerned with how to manage a world-changing technology. Humanity may be under potential threat due to artificial intelligence. He worries that few companies or governments may have such AI technology.
Hinton, who started his AI-based career with funding from the Canadian government. Now he works for Google. He was one of the first people who worked on developing such technology. The idea of this machine learning concept is now quite common in the society.
Artificial intelligence also has a downside. Such as the increasing misinformation provided by AI. As AI capabilities continue to grow exponentially. So the discussion about managing and controlling artificial intelligence will continue. Hinton believes that it is reasonable for people to be concerned about these issues. People should start thinking about these things. He worries about a few companies or governments becoming too powerful with artificial intelligence.