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On “Geoffrey Hinton, The Godfather Of AI Quits Google To Speak About The Dangers Of Artificial Intelligence”
…e around LLMs is like the hype around self driving cars, when they tried convincing people that self driving cars were inevitable, they were the future, and they irresponsibly started testing them on public roads and it was only after many people were killed that they were convinced that the tech doesn't work. It's going to be the same with LLMs.
link to this video
EDIT: to be clear, I'm paraphrasing an argument made in the interview above. The people who are warning about the dangers of a super AI destroying the world are either unintentionally or deliberately overlooking the harms being done to people using this technology today, and are further feeding into the hype around this technology not calm…