A Canadian computer scientist and psychologist known as the "Godfather of AI"Geoffrey HintonAfter announcing his resignation as Google's vice president and engineering scholar in May this year, he decided to join the robotics startup Vayu Robotics.serve as consultant.
Vayu Robotics was founded in 2021. It mainly uses artificial intelligence vision to replace sensing components such as lidar. It also claims that it does not rely on precise map information. Through training with a small amount of real images, the robot can automatically identify road conditions and operate on the road in an automated manner.
Nitish Srivastava, co-founder and CTO of Vayu Robotics, was not only a student of Geoffrey Hinton while pursuing his doctorate at the University of Toronto, but he also participated in proposing the "Dropout" technology to prevent neural networks from overfitting, which makes them unable to better adapt to other data or predict future computing results.
Currently, Vayu Robotics focuses on lightweight, low-speed autonomous delivery robots and recently received US$1270 million in financing.
Geoffrey Hinton recently chose to leave Google, saying that this was to allow him to call on the public to pay attention to the potential risks behind artificial intelligence more freely.
Geoffrey Hinton believes that automatically generated artificial intelligence will cause the widespread spread of false information in the short term, and may affect more aspects of life in the long term, including weapons that can operate completely autonomously, or artificial intelligence that derives strange theories and ideas from long-term self-learning. If government agencies, management units and technology companies themselves are not yet prepared with corresponding regulations and effective control methods, artificial intelligence may become even more uncontrollable.
Geoffrey Hinton chose to join Vayu Robotics because he believed that Vayu Robotics adopted a lower-risk ethical design of artificial intelligence while investing in a niche market with great potential, so he decided to serve as a consultant for Vayu Robotics.
