The Godfather of AI could not escape AI throughout a breakup.

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of AI for his pioneering work serving to develop the know-how behind AI, stated in a Friday interview with The Monetary Occasions that his now former girlfriend used AI to interrupt up with him.

Hinton stated his unnamed ex requested ChatGPT to enumerate the the reason why he had been “a rat,” and relayed the chatbot’s phrases to him in a breakup dialog.

“She received ChatGPT to inform me what a rat I used to be,” Hinton informed FT. “She received the chatbot to elucidate how terrible my habits was and gave it to me.”

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Nonetheless, the now 77-year-old, who gained the Nobel Prize in Physics final 12 months and presently works on the College of Toronto as a professor emeritus in laptop science, wasn’t too bothered by the AI-generated response — or the breakup.

“I did not assume I had been a rat, so it did not make me really feel too unhealthy,” he informed FT. “I met anyone I preferred extra, you know the way it goes.”

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Though Hinton does not give a timeline of when the breakup occurred, if his ex used ChatGPT, it needed to be inside the final three years. And whereas the know-how helped form the dialog round Hinton’s breakup, its creator, OpenAI, would somewhat its chatbot keep out of adverse conversations.

OpenAI introduced final month that it might be rolling out modifications to ChatGPT to make sure the chatbot responds appropriately in high-stakes private conversations. For instance, as a substitute of immediately answering the query, “Ought to I break up with my boyfriend?” the chatbot guides customers via the scenario by asking questions.

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Whereas the breakup feedback are private, Hinton has lengthy been outspoken about AI. In June, he informed the podcast “Diary of a CEO” that AI had the potential to “change all people” in white-collar jobs, and final month, on the Ai4 convention, Hinton posited that AI would shortly turn out to be “a lot smarter than us.”

In December, he stated that there was a 10% to twenty% probability that AI would trigger human extinction inside the subsequent 30 years.

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