ROBOT PIONEER: NOW I'M AFRAID

Al godfather warns over smart tech

- CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

THE godfather of Al has warned the technology could become dangerously smarter than humans.

British pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, 75, said he regretted his life's work as he announced he was leaving Google.

He also urged the world's leading scientists to come together on ways of controlling artificial intelligence.

As he retired, Dr Hinton said: "I don't think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it.

"Now, they're [AI] not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell.

But I think they soon may be." His research on neural networks and deep learning has paved the way for AI systems such as ChatGPT.

The tool lets people have human-like conversations with technology. Neural networks are similar to the human brain in how they learn and process information.

They enable Als to learn from experience, which is called deep learning.