![]() ![]() This point has been much discussed, and most AI experts have viewed this as being far into the future, perhaps 40 years or more. He also now believes we are much closer to the time when machines will be more intelligent than the smartest people. Is the timing of this news merely coincidental, or is this meant to symbolically add to its significance?Īccording to the Times article, Hinton’s immediate concern is the ability of AI to produce human-quality content in text, video and images and how that capability can be used by bad actors to spread misinformation and disinformation such that the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.” A mayday signal is to be used when there is a genuine emergency, as it is a priority call to respond to a situation. Perhaps it is only a play on words, but the announcement date conjures another association: Mayday, a commonly used distress signal used when there is an immediate and grave danger. ![]() Google has acted very responsibly.- Geoffrey Hinton Geoffrey Hinton’s tweet on Mayday Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. ![]()
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