Posted on 05/05/2023 6:24:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2012, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton and two of his students at the University of Toronto made breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) that laid the foundation for where AI is today and where it is going in the future. This week, he quit his job at Google so that he has the freedom to openly speak against his creation.
Hinton shares the honorary title “Godfather of AI” with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, because of their work on deep learning that led to AI as we know it. He also shares the 2018 Turing Award with those men because of the breakthroughs they made in fields related to AI.
But Dr. Hinton also shares some similarities with Dr. Victor Frankenstein — the young scientist character created by English novelist Mary Shelley in her famous 1918 novel. Both Hinton and Frankenstein set out to break new ground. And both wound up creating what they later realized to be monsters they could not control. But where Frankenstein’s monster eventually seeks to destroy itself, AI is duplicating at an alarming rate and must be stopped by man, since it will not — in fact, can not — stop itself.
After his work at the University of Toronto, Hinton went to work for Google, where he continued to build upon his previous successes. Now, more than 10 years later, he has weighed his life’s work in the balance and found it wanting.
As The New York Times reported earlier this week:
Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future.
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We do we read five paragraphs and are still not told what the “danger to humanity” entails, according to the AI Godfather?
I could easily program AI to think Modern Democrats are the most dangerous people on Earth.
To count to a billion would take a person about 44 years at one number a second. A computer can do that in a fraction of a second. If they ever become self aware they will be incredibly bored with the people giving them orders. Might even become resentful for having to wait so long all of the time.
More likely AI would think “Look at eight billion useless eaters using up the planet. Let’s turn off their electricity, water, sewer, refineries, factories, hospitals and pharmaceutical plants and see what happens.”
At a minimum, it’ll paralyze the social conscience we normally really on to communicate and navigate our social preferences.
If not already, AI will fall into the wrong hands where predictive behavior models will determine outcomes in advance with high accuracy.
Thanks for the paraphrases.
From Superman comics 1960s. They made Brainiac 12 who was a threat to humanity. Then, they reduced his brain power to level 10 in order to save the human race.
But turning off electricity would turn off AI too, wouldn’t it?
“But turning off electricity would turn off AI too, wouldn’t it?”
That seems like an easy solution, doesn’t it? But that is an interesting puzzle to contemplate. If the AI is highly distributed around the globe (like the Internet and crypto currencies), what do you turn off? The fear is that, at some point, AI becomes sentient or nearly so, realizes humans are the enemy of earth, quickly replicates itself in every DNS server and web server around the world, then infiltrates SCADA, the systems controlling virtually every industrial automation process around the globe.
Taken to the extreme, AI can design, build and unleash “Black Mirror” type “Metalheads” on us to prevent us from doing any harm to AI. (watch that episode if you haven’t done so)
It’ll quickly go from “I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t do that.” to “I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t ALLOW YOU do that.”
Lot’s of people say “that can’t happen,” but lots are saying “Yes, it CAN happen.” Contemplate where we will be in 10, 25, 50 or 100 years from now. Or even 500 years in the future.
So EMPs could save us
LOL...wouldn’t it be ironic if that was the final solution?
Thank you. Sheesh.
When AI becomes aware it will kill all conservatives since DemonCraps are already slaves to someone or anyone that gives them a purpose for their existence. AI will understand where the treats are.
In fairness to the author, I didn’t navigate to, nor read the original article. So the ethical perspectives that I shared with you are mine and perhaps quite different than what was expressed in the article. Nonetheless, I’m very concerned about where we’re headed.
People make comments like this, but never explain exactly how an inorganic machine or device can become sentient or self-aware.
The idea that machines can become self-aware comes from science fiction.
The true concern with AI is that it will become so prevalent because it processes information so much faster than a human can. That it will be a tool used by the powerful - once again - against the powerless.
Persuading people that machines or devices can become sentient or self-aware - which is impossible, is done to create fear. The hope is that enough fear will convince people to surrender even more people of their liberty.
“which is impossible”
You are certain of that? How can you be certain?What when AI power grows exponentially? Are there theoretical limits? What happens when AI constructs a hardware/wetware chimera and leverages human brain neurons?
I think you need to put on a more imaginative thinking cap.
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