Comment by jacquesm
4 days ago
What else do you think will happen when you rob people of what for a very large portion of us is their feeling of self worth.
These AI characters are too busy saving the planet to care about the people.
I wonder how Hinton feels about his brainchild, I can see an Oppenheimer moment in his future and I hope that he's mentally prepared for that.
He might already be there.
“I’m trying to convey that there is a really serious possibility of something happening. If, for example, you’re told there was a 10% possibility of a bus crashing, you wouldn’t get on the bus,” he said. “The point of giving numbers is to say this is a serious risk. We don’t know how serious, but it’s serious.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hin...
Poor guy. He seems so nice and well meaning, this can't be easy for him.