Commentary: If the 'Godfather of AI' really wants to blow the whistle, he should tell us what is happening behind Google's doors.
, a leader in AI ethics research at Google, did. She was sacked after co-writing a paper that critically explored Google’s search engine and its use of large language models, titled “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?”When the CNN interviewer asked about Gebru’s critique, Hinton said, “They were rather different concerns from mine. I think it’s easier to voice concerns if you leave the company first.
Geoffrey Hinton, an artificial intelligence pioneer, at his home in Toronto on April 24, 2023. Hinton decided to leave Google to freely share his concern that AI could cause the world serious harm. Are these different from Hinton’s concern? Yes, because unlike Hinton’s vague and science fiction-y claim that AI is going to take over, Gebru’s concerns were unambiguous and specific.
This could imply many things, one of which is that tech companies could charge us directly or indirectly to keep this technology under control, like your antivirus software, or may use this technology to blackmail citizens when needed. Would they do these things, though? Maybe, maybe not, but they certainly could.
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