What Really Made Geoffrey Hinton Into an AI Doomer | WIRED
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The AI pioneer is alarmed by how clever the technology he helped create has become. And it all started with a joke.
Save this story Save this story Geoffrey Hinton, perhaps the most important person in the recent history of artificial intelligence, recently sent me a video of Snoop Dogg. In the clip of a discussion panel, the rapper expresses profane amazement at how artificial intelligence software , such as ChatGPT , can now hold a coherent and meaningful conversation. “Then I heard the old dude that created AI saying, ‘This is not safe ’cause the AIs got their own mind and these motherfuckers gonna start doing their own shit,’” Snoop says. “And I’m like, ‘Is we in a fucking movie right now or what?’” The
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