Re:What made Hinton into an AI doomer
by lisasays on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:28PM
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Yet the tech to do that didn't exist at the time.
Right. Long and short of it is, even though a lot of people were talking about "bots" at the time, they weren't really thinking too much about what that meant, technically. Or even whether these "bots" were actually just literal rooms of people typing garbage from a script (by far the likeliest explanation - save for those which have since been verified as "authentic" right wing troll accounts).
Either way -- none of this was ever an "AI risks" story. That is -- nothing for people Hinton to be concerned about, let alone to have to answer to.
Re:What made Hinton into an AI doomer
by revelio on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:44PM
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It was an AI misinformation story, so you'd think it'd be in his new wheelhouse. But we all know what "misinformation" means when people like that say it. They don't mean it literally.
Right. Long and short of it is, even though a lot of people were talking about "bots" at the time, they weren't really thinking too much about what that meant, technically. Or even whether these "bots" were actually just literal rooms of people typing garbage from a script (by far the likeliest explanation - save for those which have since been verified as "authentic" right wing troll accounts).
Either way -- none of this was ever an "AI risks" story. That is -- nothing for people Hinton to be concerned about, let alone to have to answer to.