“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
- Robert Oppenheimer, the “father” of atomic bomb, following the Trinity test on July 16, 1945.
Dr. Hinton, the "Godfather of
#AI", when asked about reasons for working on potentially dangerous tech paraphrased Oppenheimer:
“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it.”
He does not say that anymore.
"Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than a decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work." Full article:
bit.ly/3LKHBnZ
His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.”
To an extent, that has been happening on the Internet in the pre -
#ChatGPT world, followed by Google, Microsoft and other giants joining the
#ArtificialIntelligence space race.
Now, things are getting orders of magnitude worse.
"Right now, what we're seeing is things like GPT-4 eclipses a person in the amount of general knowledge it has and it eclipses them by a long way. In terms of reasoning, it's not as good, but it does already do simple reasoning," Dr. Hinton said.
"And given the rate of progress, we expect things to get better quite fast. So we need to worry about that."
In the New York Times article, Dr Hinton referred to "bad actors" who would try to use AI for "bad things".
As my friend, Professor of Practice at Mcgill
@JGKeogh likes to say in reference to tackling fraud in supply chains: "trust has two enemies: bad character and bad information." While we cannot eliminate the former, we can definitely tackle the origin of information or knowledge.
More than ever, the world needs a kind of technology that decentralizes knowledge generation and sharing in the same way
#Bitcoin transformed money in a trusted, human-centric and inclusive manner.
The
@origin_trail open source and community-operated Decentralized Knowledge Graph has been ensuring information provenance in order to, inter alia, secure some 40% of US imports by allowing largest retailers to exchange verified audit reports among each other.
As Amazon started with books, OriginTrail started with supply chains. Together with our partners, community and supporting organizations, we build the "rails for knowledge" to be shared and value multiplied by embracing the use of AI technology, while putting the origins of knowledge (more precisely data provenance) to the front.
We believe decentralization can foster a more responsible Artificial Intelligence future. We do expect a steep journey, no illusions here.
In the words of John Connor: “There is no fate, but what we make”. Together.