Geoffrey Hinton, who left Google, warns that future AI systems could become more intelligent than humans and develop consciousness. He says the neural networks humans create become so complex that even their designers can't understand how they work.
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Geoffrey Hinton.
Jeffrey Hinton.
Seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence, has quit his job at Google, warning of the dangers of AI.
Does humanity know what it's doing?
No. I think we're moving into a period when for the first time ever, we may have things more intelligent than us.
You believe they can understand?
Yes.
You believe they are intelligent?
Yes.
You believe these systems have experience experiences of their own and can make decisions based on those experiences in the same.
Sense as people do? Yes.
Will they have self awareness.
Consciousness? Oh, yes, I think. Oh, yes, I think they will in time.
And so human beings will be the second most intelligent beings on the planet?
Yeah. We have a very good idea of sort of roughly what it's doing, but as soon as it gets really complicated, we don't actually know what's going on any more than we know what's going on in your brain. What do you mean?
We don't know exactly how it works? It was designed by people.
No, it wasn't. What we did was we designed the learning algorithm. But when this learning algorithm then interacts with data, it produces complicated neural networks that are good at doing things, but we don't really understand exactly how they do those things.