AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google: Artificial Intelligence is dangerous for humanity

Dr Geoffrey Hinton, who is considered to be the godfather of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has created a buzz in the world today, has described it as a threat to the world. He has said that 'It is a danger to humanity. Right now it may seem like a blessing, but it is not like that.
75-year-old Hinton said in an interview with the New York Times, 'This will eliminate a large number of jobs. Misinformation will spread rapidly in society, which will not be possible to stop. Hinton holds himself responsible for this and regrets it. He said, 'If I had not done it, someone else would have done it, but AI would have come. Now it will be very difficult to deal with it.
In 2012, Dr Hinton, along with two of his students at the University of Toronto, Ilya Sutskever and Alex Krushevsky, built a network that could analyze thousands of photos. Not only this, this network could teach itself to recognize common objects like flowers, dogs and cars.
This technique is the basis of AI. He has been working on AI since 1972 when no one had even heard of AI. He said that he 'quit his job to speak openly about the dangers of AI'.
After leaving Google, Hinton says tech companies are racing to adopt AI. They want to make AI-based products as soon as possible. They feel that this is also the basis of the future like the technology that came in the 90s. Companies are in the race and are making new discoveries in the world of AI, but they do not have any plan to deal with its risk.
Warning about the potential dangers of AI, Hinton said, "It's hard to see how you can stop bad people from using it for bad things." Hinton describes chatbots as 'pretty scary'.
He said 'When it comes to intelligence, the current chatbots were not at par with humans, but this may change soon. Right now, as far as I can tell, they are not more intelligent than us, but I think they could be soon.'