Key Points
He said that we are building powerful systems as time passes and it poses a central question- who controls these systems...
AI (artificial intelligence) was recently chosen as the word of the year by Collins dictionary..
Be it ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or the upcoming AI bot Grok, one thing common among all these bots (apart from using AI to answer queries, ofcourse) is that they are all products of huge tech companies..
While Hinton has since then made a lot of headlines, warning people about the threat that AI might be, Bengio has remained relatively quiet.. In a recent interview with Business Insider, Bengio talked about how AI is being controlled by a selected few tech giants and that is not a good thing..
"They will be able to manipulate people, right?" he said and added, "And these will be very good at convincing people because they'll have learned from all the novels that were ever written all the books by Machiavelli, all the political connivances, they'll know all that stuff..
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