That artificial intelligence is a very hot topic these days it is something indisputable. After years of hearing about it and then seeing it creep into our lives, the last year and a half has been surprising as services based on it have sprung up like mushrooms on a sunny day in a short period of time. rain. So it’s a rare day when we don’t know about a new service, a new feature, a new integration of existing ones… it’s evident that the technology ecosystem has stepped on the gas.

So, In this regard, the news is mainly divided into two large blocks. On the one hand, we have what I just mentioned, a wave of innovations that try to make artificial intelligence more present in our lives. And on the other hand, we find ourselves discussing other aspects related to AI, such as its dangers, the need to introduce adequate regulation and, of course, hypotheses about the future that awaits us when this technology starts working. get positions in many activities that are jobs today.

We have already seen movements to limit the growth of AI-based services, at least until they adapt to current regulations, and above all so that regulators have the necessary time to create a legal framework that enables their implementation. AI does not have disastrous results on a social level. An example of this is, for example, the open letter “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”, the review that ChatGPT is undergoing in several European countries or, and this is undoubtedly the most important, European Union plans to adopt an AI regulatory law by the end of the yeara remarkable response time considering the usual deadlines of these institutions.

Despite these moves, there are still people concerned about the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and some of these people are more than accredited voices in the field. The most recent and very relevant example of this can be found in Dr. Geoffry Hinton, a pioneer in the development of neural networks, who has been working at Google since 2013 as an expert in artificial intelligence. Employment that ended with Hinton decided to leave Google to pursue an open conversation about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

At this point, yes, it’s important to clarify (and he did so himself your Twitter account) that He didn’t leave Google to criticize the search engine company, but to be able to warn against AI risks without harming your employer. Furthermore, in said report, he goes so far as to confirm that “Google behaved very responsibly”, which we can relate to the caution with which the company approached the deployment of Bard.

As for the reasons, that is, the risks that Hinton mentions, there are mainly two concerns. On the one hand, it focuses on the potential use of generative artificial intelligences to create fake content. And it is true that if fake news has been intoxicating public opinion for several years, the ability to create fake text, audio, images and videos with quality standards that are increasing every day is something that we should be very worried about. On the other hand, the one who was the 2018 Turing Award winner it also points to the potential for artificial intelligence to eliminate jobs and even write and run its own codesomething the implications of which we are not yet able to fully explore.

I personally believe that Hinton’s decision honors himand I also think that now that you are no longer an employee of Google, the first people to dial your phone number should be the very regulators who are already working to create an appropriate legal framework. Whether they’re from this side of the pond or across the pond (or, why not? both), I have no doubt that their knowledge and vision of the subject would be exceptionally rewarding in such a context.