The "Godfather of AI" leaves Google with a stark warning

Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the “Godfather of AI” quit Google to warn the world of dangers ahead. The White House invites AI leaders in to address the risks of AI and text to 3D is coming soon. Let’s dive deeper into these topics and more.

“Godfather of AI” quits Google

Geoffrey Hinton the “Godfather of AI” quit Google this past week to warn the world about the consequences of AI development without hurting his previous employer, Google, who he says has acting “very responsibly”.

Hinton is worried that AI will help disseminate false information and eliminate jobs. "I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn't done it, somebody else would have. It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things," Hinton told the Times.

He also believes the dangers of the artificial intelligence tech poses to the world could be more urgent than climate change. "I wouldn't like to devalue climate change. I wouldn't like to say, 'You shouldn't worry about climate change.' That's a huge risk too," Hinton told Reuters. "But I think this might end up being more urgent. "With climate change, it's very easy to recommend what you should do: you just stop burning carbon. If you do that, eventually things will be okay. For this it's not at all clear what you should do."

White House AI Meeting

The CEO’s of some of the major players in the AI space right now including: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Open AI CEO Sam Altman.

Vice President Kamala Harris and other officials addressed Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, an AI start-up, for almost two hours in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. President Biden made a brief appearance during the gathering as well. Mr. Biden warned the executives, "What you are doing has enormous potential and enormous danger." In a statement, Ms. Harris stated that "the private sector has an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and security of their products." "And every business must abide by the law to safeguard the interests of the American people."

This meeting comes on the heels of many US government agencies stepping in to start taking a closer look at the emerging technology which we covered in our previous newsletter.

Open AI Announces Text to 3D Coming Soon

Open AI continues to push the ball forward on the capabilities of AI. This past week publishing a new study about their text to 3D model, Shap-E.

Some of the advancements include:

• Text-to-3D capabilities: create assets from written prompts

• Complex and diverse 3D assets generated in seconds

• Merges lighting and texture data for flexible 3D rendering

• Faster convergence & superior sample quality compared to Point-E

This will lead to revolutionary advancements in 3D asset create for games and movies. It will transform personalized product design with 3D printers and massively accelerate prototyping in architecture & engineering.