Advances in generative AI mean, for many, that robots are creeping into tasks and jobs that were once reserved for humans.
A darker scenario
While these concerns are well-founded, the negative impact of generative artificial intelligence on human functions is only a very small part of the darker scenario that awaits the world if the situation is not corrected, and these warnings are from the words of the pioneer of technology and spirituality father of artificial intelligence Jeffrey Hinton. , who quit his days working at Google so he could talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, without thinking about how it would affect the company.
Who is Geoffrey Hinton and why is he called the godfather of artificial intelligence?
“He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of artificial intelligence, a visionary leader, who helped shape the future of artificial intelligence,” says Bard, who works with techniques of generative AIs, and the godfather of artificial intelligence Jeffrey Hinton.
Son of a family of scholars
Geoffrey Hinton was born in Wimbledon, Great Britain, in 1947, and comes from a family of scientists, including his grandfather, the mathematician George Boole, as well as his cousin Joan Hinton, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, which produced the world’s first nuclear weapons during World War I. The second, then his father, Jeffrey Taylor, a scientist who became a member of the British Royal Society, which is the oldest scientific academy in the world.
Robot technology
Geoffrey Hinton holds a degree in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. improving machine learning, is a technology currently used by chatbots to interpret queries and generate responses for users.
In 1987, Hinton started a program dedicated to machine learning at the University of Toronto in Canada, and continued to collaborate with his colleagues and students, fascinated by how to train computers to think, see and understand what which skeptics at the time called “nonsense”.
Make the computer understandable
According to “Sky News”, Jeffrey Hinton and two other researchers in 2012 won a competition to build a system that would allow the computer to recognize hundreds of objects in images, fulfilling his dream of making the computer able to think and to understand, what is the functionality that characterizes the latest version of the ChatGPT program, and from here All these innovations have contributed to its acquisition of the title of godfather of artificial intelligence.
Hinton and colleagues Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever founded DNNresearch for artificial intelligence, machine learning and image recognition systems, attracting interest from Google, which acquired their company in 2013.
give it up
After the acquisition, Hinton began working part-time at Google, in addition to his work at the University of Toronto, and from there he created a research team dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence at Google, to announce a few days ago that it had given work with the company, which it describes as having acted with great responsibility with artificial intelligence programs.
What is he afraid of?
The credibility of Jeffrey Hinton’s warnings is due to the sober personality he enjoys. Through several press interviews following his departure from Google, he tried to convey the message that the imminent and most urgent danger to humanity is “artificial intelligence” and not “climate change”. .
Hinton’s disturbing view of the development of artificial intelligence came, after decades of work in this field, indicating that he believed machine supremacy over humans was far-fetched and required between 30 and 50 years, or even more, but he no longer believes him now.
Hinton says he doesn’t want to underestimate climate change, but if humans stop burning carbon, you’ll be fine, whereas with generative AI, it’s unclear what the world should do .
Villains exploit artificial intelligence
From Hinton’s point of view, the danger of generative artificial intelligence results from the possibility of its exploitation by the bad guys, because thanks to this technology, the machine can be assigned to do positive things, and it can also be assigned to do things that are deceptive and aggressive, because this issue is related to the operator of this machine or program.
Consider developing future releases
Hinton also believes that the nervous systems used by programs such as ChatGPT are capable of processing very large amounts of data, making them more efficient than the human brain and better suited than humans for many jobs, and Hinton believes that don’t rush Develop future versions of artificial intelligence programs, in order to understand if we can control them and prevent them from becoming independent systems.
Deliberate Misrepresentation Warning
Hinton also warned of the “deliberate misinformation” associated with generative artificial intelligence, which is fueled by compelling images, videos and stories created through these programs, which will make it nearly impossible to tell what’s going on. is true of what is false, pointing out that the only hope is that the most important work The world’s scientists come together to find solutions to control artificial intelligence.
Are the fears of the godfather of artificial intelligence legitimate?
IT and Internet technology consultant Engineer Qusai Al-Shatti said in an interview with “Sky News Arabia Economy” that artificial intelligence today has become a means of ‘improve institutional and individual capacities and capabilities, and work in a more efficient way, indicating that the fears of the spiritual father of artificial intelligence, result from so-called Machine Learning is a technology that gives computers the ability to correct their own mistakes, to increase their ability to understand by dealing with individuals and analyzing data without human intervention.
Manipulate users without their knowledge
Al-Shatti pointed out that Jeffrey Hinton is also concerned about what is called Deep Learning, or in-depth learning which is able to modify the programming of the artificial intelligence algorithm, on a pro rata basis for each case, situation or circumstance, because it considers that this technology can manipulate users without their realizing it, in addition to fear, resulting in what is called discrimination or bias in data analysis data. any potential negative phenomenon for him.
The need to define controls for AI
Al-Shatti believes that the concern of the spiritual father of artificial intelligence, and if there is need, can be reduced, by establishing controls, regulations and legislation for artificial intelligence, indicating that this issue required many countries and technical and economic groupings to strive to limit the potential damage of this technique.
He knows things we don’t know
For his part, communication engineer Issa Saad El-Din said in an interview with the “Sky News Arabia Economy” website that many artificial intelligence researchers know things that the general public does not know, considering that copies of artificial intelligence programs in labs can be so scary they paid The spiritual father of artificial intelligence, to avoid getting involved in the worst, by stepping down and expressing remorse for part of the work he has done in his life.
Machines can become conscious like us
Saad El-Din reveals that so far, despite the power of artificial intelligence programs, humans still surpass them because they possess consciousness and consciousness, but if machines gain consciousness similar to human consciousness, they will surpass it and put an end to its role, emphasizing that no one could have imagined years ago, that artificial intelligence will be so developed today, and therefore it is not at all excluded that machines will become conscious like us in the future.
What can be done?
Saad El-Din believes that there is not much that can be done to stop the spread of generative artificial intelligence programs, once they have been launched to the public, because the advantage of these programs lies in their ability to collect and analyze data at breakneck speed, and this particular characteristic can prove destructive and dangerous, if performed before. People or entities with subversive ambitions, pointing out that the biggest problem lies in the phase where a person can be seen losing the ability to control the machine they have invented.
Success can turn into a curse
According to Saad El-Din, the successes of artificial intelligence will help humanity to progress and develop in various fields, but it can also turn into a curse, and therefore the quick fix that can be taken now is to set limits to artificial intelligence and not allow this boom to seep into different aspects of our lives, emphasizing that this requires international laws and cannot be implemented by individual action.
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