Geoffrey Hinton Archives

Artificial intelligence continues to contain biases, but progress continues

09/27/202309/26/2023 Stephanie Beck

Google acknowledges that AI is still highly biased, though the tech is moving forward fast. Artificial intelligence has been rocketing forward both technologically and in popularity, but according to a researcher at Google, it continues to contain biases and repairing fairness in the tech “isn’t a simple thing”. The researcher says the chance is there to get it right as the world adopts it at a rapid speed. “It’s as though we been given a second chance on how we use this technology to dismantle some of the biases we…

‘Godfather of AI’ resigns from Google with worries about artificial intelligence

05/03/202305/02/2023 John Montgallo

Artificial intelligence - Google - I Quit

Nobel Prize of computing-winner Geoffrey Hinton expressed fear and regret over his work in AI. One of the “Godfathers of AI,” Geoffrey Hinton, has quit his job at Google in order to be able to speak openly about his concerns over the risks of artificial intelligence. Hinton won the Turing Award in 2018 with two other people for work leading to today’s AI. After having spent much of his life developing the foundational technology that has brought about the current artificial intelligence boom, Hinton has left his Google job so…