{"id":171218,"date":"2023-09-03T22:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-godfather-in-conversation-why-geoffrey-hinton-is-worried-about-the-future-of-ai"},"modified":"2023-09-03T22:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:31:04","slug":"the-godfather-in-conversation-why-geoffrey-hinton-is-worried-about-the-future-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-godfather-in-conversation-why-geoffrey-hinton-is-worried-about-the-future-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"The Godfather in Conversation: Why Geoffrey Hinton is worried about the future of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-9cW4Gcn5WY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a time of huge uncertainty,\u201d says <strong>Geoffrey Hinton<\/strong> from the living room of his home in London. \u201cNobody really knows what\u2019s going to happen \u2026 I\u2019m just sounding the alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Godfather in Conversation<\/em>, the cognitive psychologist and computer scientist \u2018known as the Godfather of AI\u2019 explains why, after a lifetime spent developing a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, he is suddenly warning about existential threats to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Toronto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.provost.utoronto.ca\/awards-funding\/university-professors\/\">University Professor<\/a> Emeritus, Hinton explains how neural nets work, the role he and others played in developing them and why the kind of digital intelligence that powers ChatGPT and Google\u2019s PaLM may hold an unexpected advantage over our own. And he lays out his concerns about how the world could lose control of a technology that, paradoxically, also promises to unleash huge benefits \u2013 from treating diseases to combatting climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a time of huge uncertainty,\u201d says Geoffrey Hinton from the living room of his home in London. \u201cNobody really knows what\u2019s going to happen \u2026 I\u2019m just sounding the alarm.\u201d In The Godfather in Conversation, the cognitive psychologist and computer scientist \u2018known as the Godfather of AI\u2019 explains why, after a lifetime spent developing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}