I flew to Toronto last week for a chat with Geoff Hinton, the venerable A.I. researcher who spent more than 50 years nurturing the idea at the heart of ChatGPT. He has left Google so that he can share his concerns that A.I. could cause serious harm:
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Geoffrey Hinton’s Legacy in AI Research and Risk Awareness
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It was a privilege working with you @geoffreyhinton in the early days of Google Brain. Thank you for your immeasurable contributions both to AI technology and for being a sensible voice on the risks of AI, such as misinformation, autonomous weapons and labor disruption.
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AI Godfather Leaves Google Warns of Dangers Ahead
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‘The Godfather of #AI’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead https://
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Forgotten Knowledge: AI Dependency Risks to Civilization
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Even benign dependency on AI/Automation is dangerous to civilization if taken so far that we eventually forget how the machines work
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AI Bot Wins No-Press Diplomacy Tournament Against Humans
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Mastering the Game of No-Press Diplomacy via Human-Regularized Reinforcement Learning and Planning We trained a bot that places first in a no-press Diplomacy tournament with humans. Paper https://
openreview.net/forum?id=F61Fw
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Geoffrey Hinton Leaves Google, Warns of AI Dangers
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‘The Godfather of #AI’ @GeoffreyHinton Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead: https://
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Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems
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Designing Societally Beneficial #ReinforcementLearning. #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #IIoT #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #JavaScript #ReactJS #CloudComputing #Serverless #DataScientist #Linux #Programming #Coding #100DaysofCode https://
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Marcus vs LeCun: Key Disagreements on LLMs and AGI
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Lost track of what @garymarcus and @ylecun agree & disagree about? Agree:
LLMs are an off-ramp to AGI
Human extinction is not likely Common sense is critical
World models are critical Disagree:
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Distinguishing AI Risk from AGI Risk
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See eg my https://
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Gary Marcus on AI Risk and AGI Safety Concerns
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They do? Example? See my essay: https://
garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-risk-agi-
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