Artificial intelligence pioneer quits Google over fears of rapid escalation

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Even the developers are abandoning ship. Geoffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer known as the “godfather of artificial intelligence”, has announced his resignation from Google, citing growing concerns about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. Hinton, 75, expressed regret about his work in a statement to The New York Times, warning that chatbots powered by AI are “quite scary” and could soon surpass human intelligence. He explained that AI systems like GPT-4 already eclipse humans in terms of general knowledge and could soon surpass them in reasoning ability as well. The arrival of ChatGPT and similar applications now available to consumers...