A Toronto professor considered to be a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence announced his departure from Google on Monday so that he could openly discuss the “dangers of AI.”
Geoffrey Hinton, professor at the University of Toronto and the “godfather” of deep learning – a field of artificial intelligence that mimics the human brain – announced his departure from the company on Monday citing the desire to freely discuss the implications of deep learning and artificial intelligence, and the possible consequences if it were utilized by "bad actors."
“I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google," Hinton said on Twitter, adding that "Google has acted very responsibly" in its implementation of the technology. “Geoff has made foundational breakthroughs in AI, and we appreciate his decade of contributions at Google," Google’s Chief Scientist Jeff Dean said in a statement on Monday.
While Hinton did not sign the open letter, he told The New York Times on Monday he found “hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.”
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