Google shared AI knowledge with the world — until ChatGPT caught up
Pichai and other executives have increasingly begun talking about the prospect of AI tech matching or exceeding human intelligence, a concept known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The once fringe term, associated with the idea that AI poses an existential risk to humanity, is central to OpenAI’s mission and had been embraced by DeepMind, but was avoided by Google’s top brass.
‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work.
The spread of misinformation is only Hinton’s immediate concern. On a longer timeline he’s worried that AI will eliminate rote jobs, and possibly humanity itself as AI begins to write and run its own code.
50% of AI researchers think there’s a 10% or greater chance that AI will cause the extinction of the human race.
Microsoft Now Claims GPT–4 Shows ‘Sparks’ of General Intelligence.