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New Nobel Prize winner, AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton, says he’s proud his student fired OpenAI boss Sam Altman
The 76-year-old argued it’s ‘unfortunate’ that Altman has put profits over AI safety.
After thanking two of his chief collaborators over the years—Terry Sejnowski and the late David Rumelhart, both of whom he called “mentors”—Hinton went on to acknowledge the role his students at the University of Toronto have played over the years helping realize his life’s work. Often called one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, Hinton praised the work of his peers Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun before making repeated self-deprecating remarks. Luminaries like Hinton, 76, fear putting profit over ethics is inherently dangerous at the current juncture.It is already difficult for scientists to predict how today’s most advanced AI models, with their trillions of parameters, actually arrive at their outcomes.
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