Geoffrey Hinton is recognized as one of the "godfathers" of AI due to his groundbreaking work on deep learning
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Why He Left Google?
Google's collaboration with the US military in 2018 led Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of AI, to quit his position of Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google because of ethical concerns
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What are his fears?
Hinton's resignation was motivated by his fears that the lack of appropriate regulations and guardrails in AI development would lead to its unchecked advancement, as demonstrated by recent AI launches by Microsoft and Google.
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Threats
Hinton has voiced concerns about the long-term threats of AI systems to humans, particularly if they are granted too much autonomy
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Values
Hinton and his longtime collaborator, Yoshua Bengio, prioritize society's values, the importance of humans, and the dignity of all individuals
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Contribution
Hinton's intuition-led breakthrough in 1986, "backpropagation," demonstrated how computer software could learn over time.
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US Military
Google's collaboration with the US military in 2018 led Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of AI, to quit his position of Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google because of ethical concerns