77-Year-Old 'Godfather of AI' Says His Girlfriend Dumped Him Via ChatGPT: 'It Didn't Make Me Feel Too Bad'

The Godfather of AI couldn't flight AI during a breakup.

Geoffrey Hinton, called the Godfather of AI for his pioneering work helping create the exertion down AI, said successful a Friday question and reply pinch The Financial Times that his now erstwhile woman utilized AI to break up pinch him.

Hinton said his unnamed ex asked ChatGPT to enumerate the reasons why he had been "a rat," and relayed the chatbot's words to him successful a breakup conversation.

"She sewage ChatGPT to show maine what a rat I was," Hinton told FT. "She sewage the chatbot to explicate really atrocious my behaviour was and gave it to me."

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However, the now 77-year-old, who won the Nobel Prize successful Physics past twelvemonth and presently useful astatine the University of Toronto arsenic a professor emeritus successful machine science, wasn't excessively bothered by the AI-generated consequence — aliases the breakup.

"I didn't deliberation I had been a rat, truthful it didn't make maine consciousness excessively bad," he told FT. "I met personification I liked more, you cognize really it goes."

Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI. Photo By Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images

Although Hinton doesn't springiness a timeline of erstwhile the breakup occurred, if his ex utilized ChatGPT, it had to beryllium wrong the last 3 years. And while the exertion helped style the speech astir Hinton's breakup, its creator, OpenAI, would alternatively its chatbot enactment retired of difficult conversations.

OpenAI announced past month that it would beryllium rolling retired changes to ChatGPT to guarantee the chatbot responds appropriately successful high-stakes individual conversations. For example, alternatively of straight answering the question, "Should I break up pinch my boyfriend?" the chatbot guides users done the business by asking questions.

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While the breakup comments are personal, Hinton has agelong been outspoken astir AI. In June, he told the podcast "Diary of a CEO" that AI had the imaginable to "replace everybody" successful white-collar jobs, and past month, astatine the Ai4 conference, Hinton posited that AI would quickly go "much smarter than us."

In December, he said that location was a 10% to 20% chance that AI would origin quality extinction wrong the adjacent 30 years.

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