Another think coming? An AI pioneer steps down
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Geoffrey Hinton, a legend of artificial-intelligence research, wants to be able to speak his mind about the technology’s risks. We ask whether those steeped in a field are best-placed to judge it. It has long been clear Ukraine needs more fighter jets; we look at the ones it may get at last. And the first video game about the Holocaust.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.9 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:14.6 | It's been clear since the start of Russia's invasion that Ukraine's Air Force needed some |
| 0:22.5 | new firepower. As the Western taboo about providing fighter jets crumbles, we look at which |
| 0:28.1 | ones they might get. And in the gaming world of good versus evil, it's not uncommon to |
| 0:35.1 | find Nazis as the baddies. But players haven't had to deal with what the Nazis stood for. |
| 0:41.1 | Until now, we play the world's first video game about the Holocaust. |
| 0:49.1 | First up, though. |
| 1:04.1 | There's no doubt that artificial intelligence is racing ahead, the striking capabilities |
| 1:09.1 | of chat GPT being just one example. With that rise in capability, though, comes a rise in concern. |
| 1:18.1 | This week, that concern came from someone known as the Godfather of the Field. |
| 1:23.1 | Jeffrey Hinton told the BBC he was stepping down at Google so he could voice his concerns |
| 1:28.1 | over what is in large part his own creation without it reflecting on his employer. |
| 1:33.1 | I've really gone public to encourage people to think very seriously about what they're going to do, |
| 1:38.1 | to make sure that if we develop things more intelligent than us, they don't gain control. |
| 1:44.1 | He's just the latest in a growing list of experts and pundits who are raising the alarm. |
| 1:49.1 | In March, hundreds of them called for a six-month moratorium on research into the tech behind models like chat GPT. |
| 1:56.1 | An open letter signed by Elon Musk is calling for a pause on the development of more powerful artificial intelligence systems. |
| 2:04.1 | More than 1,100 signatories called for a moratorium on state-of-the-art AI development. |
| 2:10.1 | Tomorrow, the bosses of Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI will be at the White House to discuss the safety of their chatbots with America's Vice President. |
| 2:19.1 | But for now, those who are worried about AI may simply be louder than those who are relaxed, |
| 2:24.1 | and it's not clear who's best placed to judge the risks. |
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