Geoffrey Hinton, the father of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has resigned as Google’s vice president after spending a decade researching and developing this technology. The famous computer scientist, after his sudden departure, has warned of the risks of misuse of AI and calls for its regulation, calling for caution given the speed that this technological development is reaching.
Hinton, a leading expert in computational neuroscience, adds to the warnings issued by AI industry leaders such as Steve Wozniak, Jaan Tallinn or Elon Musk about the danger that this technology could dispense with human control and develop autonomously.
The former Google executive, after leaving the company has expressed his concern about the content produced by tools linked to AI, specifically ChatGPT or Dall·E. These are artificial intelligence programs that make it possible to obtain any type of text or image requested by users.
Hinton fears that these apps will saturate the internet with text, video and photographic resources that could confuse people to the point of not distinguishing what is real from what is virtual. He also expresses his concern about the perverse effect that this technology can have in the work and social spheres.
Hinton confessed that he regretted having contributed to the deployment and accelerated development of a powerful tool that he himself believed would take 30 to 50 years to perfect without losing control of the potential offered by AI.
“Right now, what we’re seeing is things like GPT-4 eclipses a person in the amount of general knowledge it has and it eclipses them by a long way. In terms of reasoning, it’s not as good, but it does already do simple reasoning,” he said. “And given the rate of progress, we expect things to get better quite fast. So we need to worry about that.”
The scientist demands to stop and that Google and Microsoft not go any further until they are sure that this new technology is mastered. “I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have,” Hinton explained.
From a personalist bioethical approach, technology must be at the service of the human being and improve people’s lives, not the other way around.
The father of personalist bioethics, Elio Sgreccia, considered that science and technology did not know the ethics of means and ends. In this sense, he urged a symbiosis between technology and humanism, since scientific power can never supplant the human being.
From a personalist bioethical approach, technology should be at the service of human beings and improve people’s lives, not the other way around.
The father of personalist bioethics, Elio Sgreccia, considered that science and technology did not know the ethics of means and ends. In this sense, he urged a symbiosis between technology and humanism, since scientific power can never supplant the human being.
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