A Google executive has quit his job, fearing that his ground-breaking
work with artificial intelligence has left him fearful of the
consequences.
Geoffrey Hinton announced his resignation from Google in a statement to the New York Times.
The 75-year-old computer scientist told the BBC some of the dangers of AI chatbots were "quite scary".
"Right now, they're not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be."
"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.
"And given the rate of progress, we expect things to get better quite fast. So, we need to worry about it.”
ChatGPT is predicted to play an increasing prominent role in the
travel industry, Expedia Group and Kayak were the first travel companies
to integrate with OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence-powered
chatbot.
The
two companies have created plugins for ChatGPT so the platform can
access their data when responding to inquiries from users.
In the New York Times article, Dr Hinton added, "I've come to the
conclusion that the kind of intelligence we're developing is very
different from the intelligence we have.
"We're biological systems and these are digital systems. And the big
difference is that with digital systems, you have many copies of the
same set of weights, the same model of the world.
"And all these copies can learn separately but share their knowledge
instantly. So, it's as if you had 10,000 people and whenever one person
learnt something, everybody automatically knew it. And that's how these
chatbots can know so much more than any one person."