The Rift in the AI Community

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There is this interesting split within the community itself. And we're seeing that argument now sort of spilling over into society more widely. I'm not as gloomy as the most gloomy people like Jeff Hinton seem to be. So let's call the risks unquantifiable for the moment that they're non-zero, right? We've had discussions around the notion of moratorium on this research. How to deal with the risks that are there?

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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