Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit... by josephg on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:30AM (#50366035)

Was it? We nearly destroyed ourselves with nuclear weapons several times in the last century. I don't think it was a good call just because we've gotten lucky so far.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit... by WarmWash on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:15AM (#50366760)

Better than someone else actually killing us all because they went at it totally unrestrained.

If there is a room full of people, and one person gets a gun, who would you pick to have it?

Yourself, obviously.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit... by josephg on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:00AM (#50367476)

Good thing then that America's invention of nuclear weapons kept nuclear weapons out of the hands of the russians. Oh wait.

Maybe america will end up the only world power holding the secrets of LLMs? ... Oh no...

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit... by WarmWash on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:25AM (#50367899)

There were no secrets of nuclear weapons. The gating factor is the ability to purify uranium.

If nuclear weapons were as easy to build as AI models are to run, we would have all been dead decades ago.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit... by josephg on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:52PM (#50369113)

> There were no secrets of nuclear weapons.

There might have been. But the notes from the Manhattan project were leaked almost immediately to the russians by informants.

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