Humans have figured out immortality ‘but not for us,’ says ex-Google AI chief

Humans have already unlocked the secrets of immortality – we just can't use it on ourselves, a former top Artificial Intelligence chief has claimed.

For decades, humans have been trying to unlock the secrets to never-ending life, but the closest the world has ever come to anything looking like immortality was a woman called Jeanne Calment, who was 122 years and 164 days old when she died in 1997. She outlived the second-oldest person, Kane Tanaka, who was 119 years and 107 days old when he died in April, 2022.

However, according to Google's former AI chief, that could be the closest humans ever come, despite already figuring out immortality – but only for Artificial Intelligence. Geoffrey Hinton, who quit Google earlier this year, told The Guardian: “In trying to think about how the brain could implement the algorithm behind all these models, I decided that maybe it can’t – and maybe these big models are actually much better than the brain.

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“You pay an enormous cost in terms of energy, but when one of them learns something, all of them know it, and you can easily store more copies. So the good news is, we’ve discovered the secret of immortality – the bad news is, it’s not for us.” Hinton's comments were made in May, but have since resurfaced at the Government held an AI summit in the UK this week.

Led by the UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, world leaders in AI and tech were there, such as Twitter/X boss Elon Musk, as well as many of those who key in the tech space from around the world. However, it was snubbed by the President of the United States Joe Biden.

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And while the gathering told of the serious dangers of AI, and while those there tried to figure out a framework to “protect” humans from AI, Hinton warned that the tech could pose a bigger danger than most think. He said: “You need to imagine something more intelligent than us by the same difference that we’re more intelligent than a frog, and it’s going to learn from the web, it’s going to have read every single book that’s ever been written on how to manipulate people, and also seen it in practice.

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“I’ve got huge uncertainty at present. It is possible that large language models (Chat GPT, Google Bard etc) having consumed all the documents on the web, won’t be able to go much further unless they can get access to all our private data as well.

“I don’t want to rule things like that out – I think people who are confident in this situation are crazy.”

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