Geoffrey Hinton Is The Bad Dad of AI

The touted grand dad of deep learning, Geoffrey Hinton recently quit Google so he could talk more freely about the threats posed by AI. He will also be responding to requests for help from Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and the White House, he said. But a few years ago when the ethical team at Google raised alarm about the big tech’s unethical practices, the AI Prometheus turned a blind eye towards the subject. In the past, Hinton has expressed concern over the potential AI danger, likening it to the creation of the atomic bomb by Robert Oppenheimer's work on the Manhattan Project to develop the world's first nuclear bombs during World War II. The 75-year old polymath believes that the pursuit of profit in AI development could lead to a world where AI-generated content outnumbers that produc