Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a more nuanced look at Hinton's views than headlines, especially his argument that LLMs are more than auto-complete.
What it is
A 42-minute CBS interview with Geoffrey Hinton at the Vector Institute in 2023, covering the history of neural networks and the present and future of AI. He discusses AGI timelines and whether language models truly understand.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2023 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends lhl · 2023-04 · on “The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT”
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, March 27, 2023. [LINK] . or watching Sebastien Bubeck's recent talk he gave describing what GPT-4 can do that previous LLMs couldn't: [LINK] Geoffrey Hinton recently gave a very interesting interview and he specifically wanted to address the "auto-complete" topic: [this video] Here's another way that Ilya Sutskever recently described it (comparing GPT 4 to 3): [LINK] I'd also recommend this recent Sam Bo
Recommends tpowell · 2023-05 · on “Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern”
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. [this video] The next video in my recommendations was more dire, but equally as interesting: [LINK]
Recommends stareatgoats · 2023-05 · on “GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt”
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 for it, listen to Geoffrey Hinton explain it instead: [this video]
Cites karmasimida · 2023-03 · on “HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and Its Friends in HuggingFace”
[this video] Hinton said he didn’t believe it before ChatGPT came out, that AGI is possible in 20 years. It is simple to just checkout peoples’ own words, otherwise you are hallucinating the same way as those LLMs do
Cites Herval_freire · 2023-04 · on “Generative AI set to affect 300M jobs across major economies”
>Well, that's the capital equipment case then. Is it really a general intelligence if you don't let it be general? It can't handle every possible scenario for you that way. Humans are most useful to other humans as happy slaves. Autonomy only is good for humans as individuals. If we create useful agi of course we will bend it to our will. There is no incentive to make AI as a separate competitor other than an experiment. Either way this is hypothetical. >If your theory is that someone will program an AGI for the specific goal of making you unemployed, sure that could happen. But it sounds more like warfare than economics to me at that point, so I can't comment cause I don't know too much abo