Computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Hinton says despite its potential for good, AI could one day escape our control.

Godfather of AI tells ‘60 Minutes’ he fears the technology could one day take over humanity::Computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Hinton says despite its potential for good, AI could one day escape our control.

  • @just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18•2 years ago

    It will make us so unfathomably stupid WAY before it has the means to conquer us. I’m very interested in who is going to be the first to make the mistake of arming an AI with a physical presence in the world though.

    We’re kind of staring at the clock at this point to see who is the first asshole to create a Terminator scenario.

    • phillaholicEnglish
      15•2 years ago

      My guess is we end up more similar to Wall-e than terminator.

      • @MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Though I think we would fix the obesity issue. We’ll have food/drinks that’ll supply us with basic healthier nutrients that mimic whatever we want. Could just be virtual food and a daily pill.

        I think we’ll be more like “Ready Player One.”

    • HeratikiEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      How do you see it making us stupid? I mean we’re already on the path to Idiocracy at this point. I feel like it can help us conquer lots of menial tasks allowing our brains to be tasked with other things. YouTube is a perfect example of what we have so far. Sure a LOT of people are getting to be more stupid but we’ve advanced so quickly in our current world of instant information. If we no longer have to do menial tasks then our time will be open for greater things.

      How do we not have an AI that does our taxes yet? The greatest hurtle at the moment is that everything is monetized to the gills and these LLM’s are not real AI.

      Edit: AITax exists…. Huh go figure.

    • @mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Wasn’t Raytheon owners of the largest quantum computer at one point and was talking about how their drones were preparing to use or using AI? It’ll probably be the US’ dumbass defense contractors that do it first. At least we made some really cool weapons before they killed us…