Almost a decade ago Turing Prize winner and now former Google employee Dr. Geoffrey Hinton was known to enthusiastically exclaim among his AI students, "I understand how the brain works now!" Now, however, the "Godfather of AI" has walked away from Google -- and he's more apt to be heard desperately ringing AI alarm bells.
In an exit interview with The New York Times, Hinton expressed deep concerns about the rapid expansion of AI, saying "it is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.”
