The survival of humanity is threatened when “intelligent things can deceive us”, warned Geoffrey Hinton, considered the “godfather” of AI, during a conference that took place this Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). , in the United States.
“This can keep us going for a while, to keep the factories running. But after that, maybe not.”
After parting ways with Google to speak more freely, Hinton, 75, said he had recently changed his mind about the reasoning capabilities of computer systems he had spent a lifetime investigating.
“These things will have been learned from us, reading every novel that ever existed and everything Machiavelli ever wrote, how to manipulate people,” Hinton stressed, addressing a crowd attending the conference.
