“The Godfather of AI” is Now Warning About the Dangers

[Pink Cashmere]

Geoffrey Hinton, who played an important role in AI development left his job at Google to be able to speak freely about his concerns regarding AI.

From the article on CNN:

In the interview with the Times, Hinton echoed concerns about AI’s potential to eliminate jobs and create a world where many will “not be able to know what is true anymore.” He also pointed to the stunning pace of advancement, far beyond what he and others had anticipated.

“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” Hinton said in the interview. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

Even before stepping aside from Google, Hinton had spoken publicly about AI’s potential to do harm as well as good.

You can read the rest of the article here AI pioneer quits Google to warn about the technology’s ‘dangers’

I thought the movies about computers/robots taking over the world were all just fun and games. But someone that is much more knowledgeable about AI than I am, Mr. Hinton, is concerned about the technology being dangerous. Ummm… WHAT?!

What do you all think?

[jerseygirl]

Elon Musk is also worried and is asking for a 6 month moratorium. He also says need some sort of regulation as FDA with drugs, NTSB with airlines etc

[Tennesseer]

'Shallowfake' seems to be arising problem too.

Shallowfake of Kamala Harris Speech Viewed 5 Million Times

Afaked video of Vice President Kamala Harris has gone viral, attracting nearly 5 million views on social media. The footage shows her seemingly make rambling remarks riffing on the word "today."

The edited footage appears to be an example of a shallowfake: unlike a deepfake, which utilizes artificial intelligence to manipulate a medium, these make use of video editing software to change the source material.

Social-media users appeared split over whether the video was real or fake. Such doctored videos have emerged as part of the explosion of new technology and can be used to create sources of disinformation, as well as revenge porn.

One video had received over 4 million views as of 9 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Others, for which Twitter had not yet provided the additional context that it is fake, had accumulated a combined 878,000 views as of then.

In the video, Harris appears to say: "Today is today, and yesterday is today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow, so live today so the future today will be as the past today, as it is tomorrow."

Rest of article here: Shallowfake of Kamala Harris Speech Viewed 5 Million Times

[Pink Cashmere]

May 2, 2023 17:52:21 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Elon Musk is also worried and is asking for a 6 month moratorium. He also says need some sort of regulation as FDA with drugs, NTSB with airlines etc

I don’t have a a lot of respect for Elon Musk, but I did see in the article I provided a link for, that a non profit organization that he backs, published a letter signed by leaders in the field to “…stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing “profound risks to society and humanity….”

More and more, every day, I feel like I must be living in the twilight zone, for many different reasons, because how is any of this real?

[Opti]

May 2, 2023 17:52:21 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Elon Musk is also worried and is asking for a 6 month moratorium. He also says need some sort of regulation as FDA with drugs, NTSB with airlines etc

Elon Musk is always protecting his business interests. I do not trust his motivations.

[Opti]

May 2, 2023 16:46:58 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Geoffrey Hinton, who played an important role in AI development left his job at Google to be able to speak freely about his concerns regarding AI.

From the article on CNN:

In the interview with the Times, Hinton echoed concerns about AI’s potential to eliminate jobs and create a world where many will “not be able to know what is true anymore.” He also pointed to the stunning pace of advancement, far beyond what he and others had anticipated.

“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” Hinton said in the interview. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

Even before stepping aside from Google, Hinton had spoken publicly about AI’s potential to do harm as well as good.

You can read the rest of the article here AI pioneer quits Google to warn about the technology’s ‘dangers’

I thought the movies about computers/robots taking over the world were all just fun and games. But someone that is much more knowledgeable about AI than I am, Mr. Hinton, is concerned about the technology being dangerous. Ummm… WHAT?!

What do you all think?

There's always been a harm/good issue. For those who read the Politics board I posted on my shock of where data mining was in politics etc.

Not going to read this now, I've been reading SF and more hard science based fiction for most of my life. If the Internet pop up was right, this data scientist from Canada did his thesis in 1977 and was born in 1947. 

Jealous though. If what I read was true, he went for his BA in Cambridge, middle degree in Edinboro (sp?) and is from University of Toronto like Virgil? I need to go hydrate and move onto happy things or escapism like TV shows. Heck I worked on some beginning AI stuff in my college years although not neural networks. But I know who has.

[daisylu]

May 2, 2023 16:46:58 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Geoffrey Hinton, who played an important role in AI development left his job at Google to be able to speak freely about his concerns regarding AI.

From the article on CNN:

In the interview with the Times, Hinton echoed concerns about AI’s potential to eliminate jobs and create a world where many will “not be able to know what is true anymore.” He also pointed to the stunning pace of advancement, far beyond what he and others had anticipated.

“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” Hinton said in the interview. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

Even before stepping aside from Google, Hinton had spoken publicly about AI’s potential to do harm as well as good.

You can read the rest of the article here AI pioneer quits Google to warn about the technology’s ‘dangers’

I thought the movies about computers/robots taking over the world were all just fun and games. But someone that is much more knowledgeable about AI than I am, Mr. Hinton, is concerned about the technology being dangerous. Ummm… WHAT?!

What do you all think?

Growing up in a time where I have seen so many technological advances I have never thought those movies were fun and games.

[Opti]

May 3, 2023 4:50:07 GMT -5 daisylu said:

May 2, 2023 16:46:58 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Geoffrey Hinton, who played an important role in AI development left his job at Google to be able to speak freely about his concerns regarding AI.

From the article on CNN:

In the interview with the Times, Hinton echoed concerns about AI’s potential to eliminate jobs and create a world where many will “not be able to know what is true anymore.” He also pointed to the stunning pace of advancement, far beyond what he and others had anticipated.

“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” Hinton said in the interview. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

Even before stepping aside from Google, Hinton had spoken publicly about AI’s potential to do harm as well as good.

You can read the rest of the article here AI pioneer quits Google to warn about the technology’s ‘dangers’

I thought the movies about computers/robots taking over the world were all just fun and games. But someone that is much more knowledgeable about AI than I am, Mr. Hinton, is concerned about the technology being dangerous. Ummm… WHAT?!

What do you all think?

Growing up in a time where I have seen so many technological advances I have never thought those movies were fun and games.

Exactly, there were always authors exploring ideas of what could happen given technology as we know it plus a technological future as the author(s) imagine it. 


Movie reminder: 2001 a space odyssey was released in 1968. "I don't think I can do that Dave."  etc.

[Opti]

I think I know what the  "AI" things is about. Looks like Microsoft just pushed some updates to the browser that use "AI" to make it easier for you. So, "AI" must be a unified db and SW that tracks you even easier than FB or Google did in the past.

Or so I am guessing. I won't activate any of those features anyway. 

[weltschmerz]

Montréal, world leader in Artificial Intelligence

blog.mtl.org/en/montreal-world-leader-artificial-intelligence

Yep, Montreal. THE leader in AI and Deep Learning.

ariannerelocation.com/how-montreal-became-the-capital-of-artificial-intelligence/

I have it on good authority that we're all living in The Matrix.

[djAdvocate]

May 2, 2023 17:52:21 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Elon Musk is also worried and is asking for a 6 month moratorium. He also says need some sort of regulation as FDA with drugs, NTSB with airlines etc

Elon Musk worries about all kinds of shit, including stuff that he sees as threatening to his OWN distorted sense of freedom.  i think it is time to stop looking to him as if he knows more than you or i do about ANYTHING other than building electric cars.

[djAdvocate]

candidly, i am far more concerned with our own artificial stupidity.

[weltschmerz]

May 4, 2023 14:27:29 GMT -5 Opti said:

May 4, 2023 14:13:05 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Montréal, world leader in Artificial Intelligence

blog.mtl.org/en/montreal-world-leader-artificial-intelligence

Yep, Montreal. THE leader in AI and Deep Learning.

ariannerelocation.com/how-montreal-became-the-capital-of-artificial-intelligence/

I have it on good authority that we're all living in The Matrix.

My XH's prof did Articial Intelligence and Biomed like medical devices.
One of the professors I was a teaching assistant for is HJ Siegel who specialized in computing and theorized a computer back then like neural nets. Was at Colorado last time I checked.
His former wife, who I was closer to, Leah Jamieson actually became head of Engineering at my big 10 university. She's retired to my knowledge.

Are they all in Montreal, now?