When Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called ‘Godfather of AI’ abruptly quit Google in May, among his motivations was his view that the senior team at Google had ceased to be a “proper steward” of AI technologies and an apparent fear that they were being led astray by commercial motivations.
Last week, a board member of UK-based Stability AI quit the firm, furious at his colleagues’ view that it was acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products.
