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Re:Statement on AI Risk by veerd on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:02PM (#36127371)
Agreed. It's difficult for me to see how the regulatory capture arguments apply to Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (!!).

Both of them are criticizing their own life's work and the source of their prestige. That has to be emotionally painful. They aren't doing it for fun.

I totally understand not agreeing with AI x-risk concerns on an object level, but I find the casual dismissal bizarre.

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Re:Statement on AI Risk by logicchains on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:39PM (#36127875)
Yoshua Bengio is an unrepentant plagiarist who refused to give Schmidhuber due credit after stealing his idea, he'd probably say anything he was paid to.
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Re:Statement on AI Risk by verdverm on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:21PM (#36127614)
Hinton has invested in multiple AI companies: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/geoffrey-hinton
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