hello, i m samantha simmonds. 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 in a lengthy interview with the new york times, dr hinton said 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 a
person learned something, everybody automatically knew it. that s how these can know so much more than any one person. dr hinton also told the bbc the rate of progress is worrying. right now, what we re seeing is things like gpt li eclipses a person in the amount of general knowledge it has and it eclipses them by a long way. in terms of reasoning, it s not as good, but it does already 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 re not more intelligent than us, as far as i can tell. but i think they soon may be. earlier we spoke tojunaid mubeen, author of mathematical intelligence. we asked what he makes of the ai warning. this one is to be taken seriously because of where it s coming from. i wouldn t take elon musk s own warnings particularly seriously, because he s not a ai expert.