hello, i m lucy hockings. the man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence has quit his job at google, warning of the dangers of ai. dr geoffrey hinton s pioneering research on deep learning and neural networks has paved the way for current ai systems like chatgpt, but dr hinton says he now regretted his work and is worried that al technology will flood the internet with misinformation. google responded in a statement saying, we remain committed to a responsible approach to ai. dr hinton has been telling the bbc how these systems can know so much. the kind of intelligence we re developing is very different from the intelligence we have. we are biological systems and these are digital systems and the big difference is, with digital systems, you have many copies of the same set of weights, the same model of the world, and all these copies can learn separately, but share their knowledge instantly. so it s as if you had 10,000 people and whenever one person l
madhu merjia, the artificial intelligence editor for the financial times spoke to us earlier she said geoffrey hinton s resignation from google should be taken seriously. what geoff hinton says should be taken very seriously and i think maybe is more concerning than the things that have come before in terms of warnings from others. simply because of professor hinton s position in this area, he is known, as you said, as the godfather of artificial intelligence. he s been a pioneer of deep learning, which is the type of ai that now underpins what we are seeing as consumers in chatgtp and google bard, and so on. he s been at the forefront of this type of research, so he knows it better than anyone else, he knows its potentials and its risks as well. so i think this will mark a moment in the sort of race to develop more ai products and you know, people will have to take these risks seriously. let s remind ourselves of exactly what ai is and how it works. it starts with an algortihim t