Expert: Superintelligence does not imply a desire to dominate humans
Yann LeCun · 20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Proprietary Data Really Matter For Startups Today? · Jun 2, 2023 · at 18:49
AI Research Expert pushes back against existential risk arguments raised by researchers such as Geoffrey Hinton.
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“There is this idea, somehow, the desire to, and the ability to dominate, is linked with intelligence. A statement that a lot of people are making, including Jeff Hinton recently, That somehow, as soon as a machine becomes intelligent, it becomes uncontrollable because it's being smarter than us. It can influence us in ways that we can't even imagine. Now, I think this is a gigantic fallacy.”
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