Bengio emphasized that while it is impressive, ChatGPT is a “very small step” scientifically and called it “mostly an engineering advance.”

Source: https://venturebeat.com/ai/as-gpt-4-chatter-resumes-yoshua-bengio-says-chatgpt-is-a-wake-up-call/

” Bengio’s version of the Boltzmann Machine was more effective than Hinton expected; it took Bengio a few years to figure out why.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/geoffrey-hinton-profile-ai

Fellow "godfather" Dr Geoffrey Hinton has also signed the same warnings as Prof Bengio, and retired from Google recently saying he regretted his work.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65760449?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

The statement was signed by more than 350 executives, researchers, and engineers from the AI sector, including Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, and Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, two of the Turing award-winning researchers considered the "."

Source: https://theweek.com/artificial-intelligence/1023931/ai-human-extinction