AI pioneer says its threat to world may be more urgent than climate change
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Hintons work is considered essential to the development of contemporary AI systems. In 1986, he co-authored the seminal paper Learning representations by back-propagating errors, a milestone in the development of the neural networks undergirding AI technology. In 2018, he was awarded the Turing Award in recognition of his research breakthroughs.
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But he is now among a growing number of tech leaders publicly espousing concern about the possible threat posed by AI if machines were to achieve greater intelligence than humans and take control of the planet.
I wouldnt like to devalue climate change. I wouldnt like to say, You shouldnt worry about climate change. Thats a huge risk too, Hinton said. But I think this might end up being more urgent.
He added: With climate change, its very easy to recommend what you should do: you just stop burning carbon. If you do that, eventually things will be okay. For this its not at all clear what you should do.
-backed OpenAI fired the starting pistol on a technological arms race in November, when it made AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT available to the public. It soon became the fastest-growing app in history, reaching 100 million monthly users in two months.
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In April, Twitter CEO Elon Musk joined thousands in signing an open letter calling for a six-month pause in the development of systems more powerful than OpenAIs recently-launched GPT-4.
Signatories included Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, researchers at Alphabet-owned DeepMind, and fellow AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell.
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