Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence”
Geoffrey Hinton reveals that his girlfriend has ended with him through ChatgPT. “She asked Chatgpt to tell me I was a rat.” AI has not yet destroyed humanity, as Hinton fears, but has already helped destroy his love relationship.
Nobel Prize of Physics last year and widely considered the “godfather of artificial intelligence”, Geoffrey Hinton It maintains a complicated relationship with the technology it helped develop on Google several years ago. Apparently, with his girlfriend too.
There is a long time Hinton alert to humanity existentials caused by Ia, who helped create on Google “Where did you leave, afraid that your creature would destroy us.”
Hinton, 77, was one of the personalities of the technology sector that in 2023 signed, which appeals to “mitigation of extinction risk from Ia ”. But Not even in your personal life The computer scientist seems to escape the impact of this technology.
In an interview, he revealed that his ex-girlfriend, with whom she had a relationship for several years, decided to end with him through the chatgpt – A product that would not exist without your pioneering investigations.
According to ChatgPT, Hinton is a rat.
“She asked chatgpt to explain how bad It had been my behavior and handed me the answer“He said.” I didn’t think it had been that mouse, so I didn’t feel too bad, “he added in his defense.
The episode highlights to what extent the AI has already entered the daily life – even to the “godfather of the AI” and One of the most critical voices About the dangers of technology, note o.
Hinton’s former partner It is not a single case. Especially among the younger ones, ChatgPT became a Frequent support in loving runshelping to write separation messages and, in some cases, until you encourage divorce requests.
Even though it is over a relationship Far from the global catastrophe scenario That Hinton so often evokes, the case is nonetheless revealing.
Currently Professor at the University of Toronto, Hinton insists that society It should act before it is late.
“Imagine that it observed, through a telescope, a alien invasion scheduled for ten years. Would be asking ‘How to maintain optimism?‘No, I would be thinking’How we will deal with this? If being positive means pretending that it won’t happen, then People should not be positive”He said.
Hinton warns of the drastic consequences that artificial intelligence can bring and a huge concentration of profits in some people. “It will make some much richer and most poorer. It’s not the AI’s fault, It is from the capitalist system”.
Despite its warnings, admits that it resorts to chatgpt For everyday issues, from getting appliances to other forms of “investigation”.
As for sentimental life, it ensures already overcoming the separation. “I met someone I like best. That’s how things are… or Maybe don’t know how it is”, Confessed in the interview with Financial Times, between laughs.
