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Re:Geoffrey Hinton shortens odds of the technology wiping ou... by wslh on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:02PM (#42525007)
Are you excluding military weapons from technology? I wonder what kid of extinction are you thinking of, probably climate change but I don't think that possibility will lead to humanity extinction.
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Re:Geoffrey Hinton shortens odds of the technology wiping ou... by hyhconito on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:07PM (#42525052)
He's referring to specific uses of technology as in AI, not the summary headline The Grauniad used. That my nature excludes 99.99% of everything that goes boom at the moment.
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