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posted by hubie on Thursday March 30 2023, @01:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the EXTERMINATE dept.

Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist who has been called "the godfather of artificial intelligence", says it is "not inconceivable" that AI may develop to the point where it poses a threat to humanity:

The computer scientist sat down with CBS News this week about his predictions for the advancement of AI. He compared the invention of AI to electricity or the wheel.

Hinton, who works at Google and the University of Toronto, said that the development of general purpose AI is progressing sooner than people may imagine. General purpose AI is artificial intelligence with several intended and unintended purposes, including speech recognition, answering questions and translation.

"Until quite recently, I thought it was going to be like 20 to 50 years before we have general purpose AI. And now I think it may be 20 years or less," Hinton predicted. Asked specifically the chances of AI "wiping out humanity," Hinton said, "I think it's not inconceivable. That's all I'll say."

[...] Hinton said it was plausible for computers to eventually gain the ability to create ideas to improve themselves.

Also at CBS News. Originally spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.

Previously: OpenAI's New ChatGPT Bot: 10 "Dangerous" Things it's Capable of


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by guest reader on Thursday March 30 2023, @04:56PM

    by guest reader (26132) on Thursday March 30 2023, @04:56PM (#1298918)

    Or, a simple test is to ask it something like [arxiv.org]:

    There are five birds on a branch. If you shoot one of them off the branch, how many are left on the branch?

    ChatGPT [openai.com] Mar 14 Version:

    If you shoot one bird off the branch, there will be 4 birds left on the branch.

    OpenChatKit [huggingface.co] GPT-JT:

    There are 5 birds on the branch. If you shoot one of them off the branch, that leaves 5 - 1 = 4 birds on the branch.

    human:

    None.

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