Mr. Hinton says he doesn't want anything to do with it. He wants to be able to speak freely about his worries about AI because the technique that he pioneered has got very big or deep, as we call them. And just in the past few years, it's got much, much better. We've seen chat GPT is the classic example that break out iPhone moment for AI. But if he says that while he works at Google, he just looks like he's defending Google.
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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