Papa” of artificial intelligence resigns

The person widely viewed as “baba” of artificial intelligence has quit his job and warned of increased risks from developments in this area.

Geoffrey Hinton, 75, has announced his resignation from Google by writing to the New York Times, saying he now regrets his work.

Speaking of the BBC, he has said some of the artificial intelligence programs are “rather frightening”.

They're not exactly more intelligent than we can say. But I think it might soon be”, Hinton said.

He has said that his age has also played a role in his decision to withdraw from the giant of technology.

I'm 75 years old, so it's time to retire”, Hinton said.

In his writing to the New York Times, Hinton was referring to the bad “players”, who might try to use artificial intelligence for the bad “”.

When asked by the BBC to elaborize this, he replied: “this is just a kind of worse scenario, a nightmare scenario”.

You can imagine, for example, a bad actor like [Russian president, Vladimir] Putin decides to give robots the ability to create his own goals”, Hinton said.

The leading scientist at Google, Jeff Dean, has said that the company <x0Bs committed to a responsible approach to artificial intelligence”.

We are constantly learning to understand developmental risks”, he said.