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Another think coming? An AI pioneer steps down

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The Divide in the AI Community

There is a deeper divide within the AI community more broadly that some experts are very worried about this and are sounding alarms. Others are saying, oh, come on, don't be silly, the idea that we're going to jump from LLM's to Terminator-style robot or other bad consequences is going too far. So it's not just Jeff Hinton who's worried about this. Stuart Russell, another great AI pioneer, is also concerned about it. And then we had Gary Marcus on our Babbage podcast a few weeks ago, another AI expert, and he's also expressed concerns. Every day, for example, I see some new crazy thing that it does or that somebody does with

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