2023-05-31
In a newfound consensus, AI scientists and executives (Hinton, Bengio, Hassabis, Altman, Amodei, etc.) warn, “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...
2023-05-30
In a newfound consensus, AI scientists and executives (Hinton, Bengio, Hassabis, Altman, Amodei, etc.) warn, “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
OpenAI and DeepMind execs, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others release a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.
2023-05-02
“When Hinton saw me out, the spring day had turned gray and wet. ‘Enjoy yourself, because you may not have long left,’ he said. He chuckled and shut the door.” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
MIT Technology Review
A profile of and interview with deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who shares why he now thinks neural networks represent a “better form of intelligence”
“I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”
2023-05-01
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that. 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.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
2021-09-13
Amazon warehouses attempt to achieve the impossible: make every worker above average. Apparently someone misread the Lake Wobegon Effect as Lake Wobegon Effectiveness... Coverage by @mims at @WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
How Amazon would be affected by California's new bill aimed at regulating the company's use of productivity quotas in warehouses, the first bill of its kind
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal :
Amazon warehouses attempt to achieve the impossible: make every worker above average. Apparently someone misread the Lake Wobegon Effect as Lake Wobegon Effectiveness... Coverage by @mims at @WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal