{"id":9885,"date":"2023-05-05T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/05\/weve-discovered-the-secret-of-immortality-the-bad-news-is-its-not-for-us-why-the-godfather-of-ai-fears-for-humanity\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:37:32","slug":"weve-discovered-the-secret-of-immortality-the-bad-news-is-its-not-for-us-why-the-godfather-of-ai-fears-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/05\/weve-discovered-the-secret-of-immortality-the-bad-news-is-its-not-for-us-why-the-godfather-of-ai-fears-for-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it\u2019s not for us\u2019: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Hinton recently quit Google warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Is AI really going to destroy us? And how long do we have to prevent it?<\/p>\n<p>The first thing Geoffrey Hinton says when we start talking, and the last thing he repeats before I turn off my recorder, is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/02\/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-quits-google-warns-dangers-of-machine-learning\">he left Google, his employer of the past decade<\/a>, on good terms. \u201cI have no objection to what Google has done or is doing, but obviously the media would love to spin me as \u2018a disgruntled Google employee\u2019. It\u2019s not like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an important clarification to make, because it\u2019s easy to conclude the opposite. After all, when most people calmly describe their former employer as being one of a small group of companies charting a course that is alarmingly likely to wipe out humanity itself, they do so with a sense of opprobrium. But to listen to Hinton, we\u2019re about to sleepwalk towards an existential threat to civilisation without anyone involved acting maliciously at all.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/05\/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-fears-for-humanity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5242d4428560961755e125e81462552b0d483147\/0_563_8368_5021\/master\/8368.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9537ce58d53d47af318bb09bcefd5d11\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it\u2019s not for us\u2019: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity\" \/>Geoffrey Hinton recently quit Google warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Is AI really going to destroy us? And how long do we have to prevent it?<br \/>\nThe first thing Geoffrey Hinton says when we start talking, and the last thing he repeats before I turn off my recorder, is that he left Google, his employer of the past decade, on good terms. \u201cI have no objection to what Google has done or is doing, but obviously the media would love to spin me as \u2018a disgruntled Google employee\u2019. It\u2019s not like that.\u201d<br \/>\nIt\u2019s an important clarification to make, because it\u2019s easy to conclude the opposite. After all, when most people calmly describe their former employer as being one of a small group of companies charting a course that is alarmingly likely to wipe out humanity itself, they do so with a sense of opprobrium. But to listen to Hinton, we\u2019re about to sleepwalk towards an existential threat to civilisation without anyone involved acting maliciously at all. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Hinton recently quit Google warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Is AI really going to destroy us? And how long do we have to prevent it? The first thing Geoffrey Hinton says when we start talking, and the last thing he repeats before I turn off my recorder, is that he left Google, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/05\/weve-discovered-the-secret-of-immortality-the-bad-news-is-its-not-for-us-why-the-godfather-of-ai-fears-for-humanity\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We\u2019ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it\u2019s not for us\u2019: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}