hello. the man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence has quit his job at google, warning of the dangers of ai. doctor geoffrey henton s pioneering research on aland neural networks has paved the way for current work on al, but he says he now regrets his work and is worried the technology will flood the internet with misinformation. google has responded in a statement, saying. doctor henton has told the bbc how these systems can know so much. the kind of these systems can know so much. tie: kind of intelligence we these systems can know so much. tue: kind of intelligence we are developing is very different from the intelligence we have. we are biological systems, and these are digital systems, and the big difference is that 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
can learn separately but share their knowledge instantly, so it s as if you had 10,000 people, and whenever one person learn something, everyone knew it. and that is how these chat apps can know so much more than any one person. doctor hinton also told the bbc the rate of progress is worrying. right now, what we are seeing is things like gpt i eclipses a person in the amount of general knowledge it has, and eclipses them by a long way. in terms of reasoning, it is not as good, but it does do simple reasoning, and given the rate of progress, we expect things to get better quite fast, so we need to worry about that. right now, they are not, as far as i can tell, but they soon might be. let s remind ourselves what ai is and how it works. it starts with an algorithm, a set of instructions given to a