According to the inventor of AI, the risk posed by the technology may be both larger and more serious than that posed by climate change.

 According to Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "Godfather of AI," the technology may provide a risk that is more pressing than climate change. Hinton recently left his position at Google in order to alert people to the risks posed by AI.

Artificial intelligence is currently the topic of conversation in the tech sector. And people are experimenting with different methods to use technology to their greatest advantage all across the world. The "Godfather of AI," Geoffrey Hinton, worked at Google for more than a decade and significantly advanced artificial intelligence. He and his two students developed the neural network that the ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard chatbots used as their foundation. However, Hinton quit his job at Google after quickly realising the problems associated with his own invention and beginning to educate people across the world about these concerns.

The Godfather of AI issues a tech-related caution.

Hinton claimed that AI poses a threat that is more "urgent" than climate change in his most recent interview with Reuters. I wouldn't wish to downplay climate change, he remarked. I would like to advise people not to be concerned about climate change. Another big concern is that However, I believe that this (the risks of AI) may wind up being more critical," he remarked.

The pioneer of AI went on to say that there is still a method to combat climate change and that we are aware of what needs to be done to prevent things from spiralling out of control. The best course of action for artificial intelligence, however, is still unknown.

"With regards to climate change, it's very simple to suggest what you should do: you simply stop burning carbon," he remarked. Things will turn out alright eventually if you do that. It's not at all obvious what you should do in this case.

Additional remarks on the risks of AI

When Hinton's interview with the New York Times was published, word spread that he had quit his employment at Google. In addition to announcing his resignation from the tech company, Hinton also warned that the upgraded forms of AI could be disastrous for humans because they have a propensity to pick up "unexpected behaviour from the vast amounts of data that they analyse." He continued by explaining how this might become a problem in the future when businesses and people start allowing AI to write and execute its own code.

He continued by saying that previously, people had believed that the likelihood of this happening was remote. That is no longer the case, though, because AI is advancing so quickly.

Hinton cautioned that artificial intelligence (AI) may soon overtake human intelligence in another interview with the MIT Technology Review. The potential repercussions of building computers with greater intelligence than humans need to be seriously considered, he continued. As stated by Hinton, "our brains contain 100 trillion connections," and "large language models have up to half a trillion, or a trillion at most, connections. GPT-4, however, has a vastly greater knowledge base than a single individual. So perhaps it actually has a lot more advanced learning algorithms than we do.