The Bulletin with UBS The future of artificial intelligence with Geoffrey Hinton and De Kai
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Apr 28, 2024 
Geoffrey Hinton and De Kai discuss the future of artificial intelligence, including AI ethics, large language models in medicine, risks of AI, AI accelerationists versus decelerationists, and aligning AI with humanity's goals.
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How LLMs Understand
- Large language models understand language by predicting the next word.
- This forces them to grasp the meaning of previous words, similar to humans.
LLMs and Analogies
- LLMs like GPT-4 excel at understanding analogies, surpassing many humans.
- They grasp complex relationships between concepts that traditional AI struggled with.
AI's Benefits
- AI's potential benefits, especially in medicine, are immense, making its development unstoppable.
- AI could significantly reduce medical diagnostic errors and improve image reading.