Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a more nuanced look at Hinton's views than headlines, especially his argument that LLMs are more than auto-complete.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CBS Mornings

Topic

ai risk and understanding

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• If you (or anyone else is) interested in the topic, I'd highly recommend giving some of these a look: Bubeck, Sébastien, Varun Chandrasekaran, Ronen Eldan, Johannes Gehrke, Eric Horvitz, Ece Kamar, Peter Lee, et al. “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4.” arXiv, …

• Yesterday, I randomly watched his full interview from a month ago with CBS Morning, and found the discussion much more nuanced than today's headlines. [VIDEO] The next video in my recommendations was more dire, but equally as interesting: [LINK]

• No, we're past that point. it's no longer the most useful way to describe these things, we need to understand that they already have some sort of "understanding" which is very similar if not equal to what we understand by understanding. Don't take my word …