The White House has called in the CEOs of Google, Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to meet Thursday with Vice President Kamala Harris in what's being described by officials as a frank discussion on how to mitigate both the near-term and long-term risks of their technology. There are plenty of signs that governments are listening. 'I do think that the dangers – the short-term ones, the long-term ones – are very serious and need to be taken seriously by not just a few researchers but governments and the population.” 'The main difference, I would say, is he’s kind of a pessimistic person, and I’m more on the optimistic side,” said Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal.

'I’m not sure there is a solution.”įellow AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, co-winner with Hinton of the top computer science prize, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he's 'pretty much aligned” with Hinton's concerns brought on by chatbots such as ChatGPT and related technology, but worries that to simply say 'We're doomed” is not going to help. 'I wish I had a nice simple solution I could push, but I don’t,” he added. 'Even if they can’t directly pull levers, they can certainly get us to pull levers.” 'These things will have learned from us, by reading all the novels that ever were and everything Machiavelli ever wrote, how to manipulate people,” Hinton said, addressing the crowd attending MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference from his home via video. 'But after that, maybe not.”Īfter retiring from Google so he could speak more freely, the 75-year-old Hinton said he's recently changed his views about the reasoning capabilities of the computer systems he's spent a lifetime researching. 'It may keep us around for a while to keep the power stations running,” Hinton said. Humanity's survival is threatened when 'smart things can outsmart us,” so-called Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton said at a conference Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. CAMBRIDGE: Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today’s artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn’t mean they agree on what those dangers are or how to prevent them.

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