Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather' of artificial intelligence, issues a warning as he leaves Google

A man widely regarded as the father of artificial intelligence (AI) has resigned from his position in order to raise awareness of the mounting risks posed by the field's advancements.

Geoffrey Hinton, 75, said in a message to the New York Times that he was leaving Google and that he now regretted his work.

He described some of the risks posed by AI chatbots as "quite scary" to Tech Insider.

As far as I can tell, they aren't smarter than we are at the moment. But I believe they might come shortly.

Current AI systems like ChatGPT are the result of Dr. Hinton's groundbreaking work in the fields of deep learning and neural networks.

But according to the British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, the chatbot may soon surpass the amount of knowledge a human brain can store.

"At the moment, what we're observing is that things like GPT-4 much surpass a person in terms of its broad understanding. It's not as skilled at reasoning, but it can already make simple decisions.

We anticipate things to improve quickly given the rate of progress. Therefore, we must consider that.

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