“The godfather AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, recently said that some professions are safer than others in terms of replacing AI.
In an interview about the podcast “Diary of the CEO”, Which broadcast on Monday, Hinton said that AI has the potential to cause mass unemployment, especially in white collar jobs.
AI could replace all the tasks of white collars
Hinton repeated his opinion on the superiority of AI. “I think it will just replace everyone for secular intellectual work,” he said.
“Light intellectual work” concerns jobs. He also stated that AI would take the form of a person and perform a job that 10 people did before.
Working with a blue collar “safe” right now
Hinton said he would be “frightened” to work at a call center right now due to the potential of automation. However, he pointed out that working with a blue collar would take longer to replace AI.
“I would say it will be a long time before AI is equally good in physical manipulation,” Hinton said in a podcast. “So a good bet should be a plumber.”
Hinton challenges the idea of AI creating new tasks
In the hinton podcast, he also questioned the idea that AI would create new jobs, and mentioned that if AI automated intellectual tasks, there would be few jobs left for people.
The person must be very experienced to have a job that AI simply could not do, ”Hinton said.
Who is Geoffrey Hinton?
Geoffrey Hinton, 78, has the title “Godfather AI” because of his work on neural networks, which began at the end of the 70s.
He won the Nobel Prize 2024 in Physics for his work on machine learning (ML) and is currently teaching computer science at the University of Toronto.
AI no longer has to be strengthened to human efforts
The interview comes just after Openai announced his plans for restructuring, in which the profitable ARM company becomes a public company Benefit Corporation (PBC), in an effort to calm the company’s investors.
OpenI said that the plan would allow him to gain more capital to keep the pace in the expensive AI race, reported Reuters.
However, a group of critics were concerned that they claim that the plan “may be a step in the right direction”, yet it does not adequately ensure that OpenIa adheres to its original mission to develop artificial intelligence in favor of humanity.
Critics include Geoffrey Hinton and former OpenAi employees. They protested against Openai’s proposed reorganization because they stated that this would give the motives of investors’ profits to public good.
The co -founder of Openi Elon Musk, who is now a competitor through his XAI company, also protested against the proposal for the same reason and sued Openai for a violation of the company’s founding contract, Reuters said.
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