00:00AI Godfather Jeffrey Hinton Gets Dumped by a ChatGPT Essay
00:04Jeffrey Hinton, the man affectionately nicknamed the godfather of AI, has spent years warning the world that AI could one day spell humanity's doom.
00:14But in a twist even he probably didn't see coming, AI recently came for his love life before it came for civilization.
00:20In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Hinton revealed that his girlfriend broke up with him using none other than OpenAI's ChatGPT.
00:28She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was, he admitted.
00:33Apparently she fed the bot details of his supposed misbehavior, then handed him the AI-generated breakup essay.
00:39Hinton, who insists he didn't actually act like a rat, took it in stride.
00:43It didn't make me feel too bad.
00:45Using AI for breakups isn't all that unusual, with many people outsourcing emotionally difficult conversations to chatbots.
00:52Hinton himself is no stranger to life-changing AI moments.
00:55He pioneered neural networks in the 1980s, work that later earned him a Nobel Prize and a career at Google before leaving in 2023.
01:04Now, 77, he's a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and still raising alarms about AI's future.
01:11He worries super-intelligent AI could arrive within 5 to 20 years, destabilizing jobs and enriching only a tiny slice of society.
01:18He argues the problem isn't the tech itself, but the capitalist system that will funnel AI's profits upward.
01:24His proposed solution, build AI with maternal instincts to protect humanity.
01:29Still, even Hinton admits the future is unpredictable, potentially amazingly good or amazingly bad.
01:36For now, he's found a new partner, hopefully one who won't use ChatGPT for relationship matters.
01:42Turns out, plenty of people are now letting algorithms handle their emotional dirty work.
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