Artificial intelligence|According to Geoffrey Hinton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the development of artificial intelligence has been faster than he would have thought.
“Artificial intelligence of a British-Canadian called “Godfather”. Geoffrey Hintonin there is a 10-20 percent chance that artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity in the next three decades.
Computer scientist Hinton, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics this year, says of The Guardian according to that the rate of change in technology is much faster than expected.
BBC Radio 4’s Today program asked if Hinton had changed his analysis of the potential destruction of humanity by artificial intelligence and its likelihood.
“Not really, it’s 10 to 20 percent,” Hinton replied.
“Look, we’ve never had to deal with things smarter than ourselves before,” Hinton continued.
Hinton received the Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Kaarle Kustaa.
He asked how many examples are known of a more intelligent entity being dominated by a less intelligent entity.
“There are very few of them. Evolution has done a lot of work for the baby to dominate the mother, but that’s the only example I know of,” Hinton said.
The University of Toronto professor emeritus said humans would be like infants compared to the intelligence of highly powerful artificial intelligence systems.
“I like to think about it like, Imagine yourself and a three-year-old child. We are three years old,” he specified.
According to The Guardian, artificial intelligence can be loosely defined as computer systems that perform tasks that usually require human intelligence.
Hinton according to the magazine, made headlines last year after leaving Google in order to speak more openly about the risks of unlimited development of artificial intelligence. Hinton has raised concerns that “bad actors” could use technology to harm others.
The concern of Hinton and others who talk about the safety of artificial intelligence is that the creation of artificial general intelligence, that is, systems that are smarter than humans, could lead to the technology posing an existential threat because it can escape human control.
When he started working on technology, Hinton believed that the situation in which humanity is now would not be reached until later in the future.
“Most industry experts believe that probably in the next 20 years we will develop artificial intelligences that are smarter than humans. It’s a very scary thought.”
Hinton’s according to him, the pace of development is very fast and faster than he has expected. In his opinion, the development of artificial intelligence would require regulation at the state level.
“I worry that the invisible hand is not going to keep us safe,” he said.
“The only thing that can force large companies to do more security research is government regulation.”