Artificial Intelligence Gerd Public

“saying that I think it should be stopped now—and I've never said that,” he says. “First of all, I don't think that's possible, and I think we should continue to develop it because it could do wonderful things. But we should put equal effort into mitigating or preventing the possible bad consequences.”

What Really Made Geoffrey Hinton Into an AI Doomer
https://www.wired.com/story/geoffrey-hinton-ai-chatgpt-dangers/
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“The crux of Marcus’ new message is that the chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and others are dangerous entities whose powers will lead to a tsunami of misinformation, security bugs, and defamatory “hallucinations” that will automate slander. This seems to court a contradiction. For years Marcus had charged that the claims of AI’s builders are overhyped. Why is AI now so formidable that society must now restrain it?”

Gary Marcus used to call AI stupid—now he calls it dangerous
https://link.wired.com/view/627417e77bb83e51170ea1d0ioo2v.3uj5/cdc8eb9c
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“Human rights, for example, aren’t inscribed in our DNA. Rather, they are cultural artefacts we created by telling stories and writing laws. Gods aren’t physical realities. Rather, they are cultural artefacts we created by inventing myths and writing scriptures.”

Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/04/28/yuval-noah-harari-argues-that-ai-has-hacked-the-operating-system-of-human-civilisation
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“The most pragmatic position is to think of A.I. as a tool, not a creature. My attitude doesn’t eliminate the possibility of peril: however we think about it, we can still design and operate our new tech badly, in ways that can hurt us or even lead to our extinction.”

There Is No A.I.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
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