He is considered the godfather of the AI. Now, Geoffrey Hinton is quitting his job at Google, concerned that chatbots like GPT-4 could do serious damage.
Geoffrey Hinton has been researching AI for years. Now he warns of their dangers.
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Geoffrey Hinton changed the way machines see the world about a decade ago. At the University of Toronto, where he was then a professor, he and two doctoral students developed a neural network that could analyze thousands of photos and teach itself to recognize objects such as flowers or cars. And with a certainty that seemed unattainable until then.
