For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
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Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely
Enlarge / Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute, speaks during The International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) Toronto Global Forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) According to The New York Times, AI pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton has resigned from Google so...
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