Post by @bakuninboys@aus.social

2026-10-18 00:31 UTC

@flipper@mastodonapp.uk @timnitGebru@dair-community.social @lindamciver@aus.social @Su_G@aus.social is there an over under on Hinton written up somewhere? I didn't realise he was such a polarising figure. EDIT: Found it https://www.fastcompany.com/90891995/i-didnt-see-him-show-up-ex-googlers-blast-ai-godfather-geoffrey-hintons-silence-on-fired-ai-experts

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@flipper@mastodonapp.uk 2026-10-18 00:58

@bakuninboys@aus.social My comment comes from this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech But, basically, there's this weird idea that either you think AI is awesome and it's going save us all or it's inherently dangerous and it's going to kill us all. These are both pro-AI viewpoints that assume that AI is somehow an exceptional technology that should be treated differently because it's sentient or near-sentient. The truth is it's just tech that allows a bunch of things to be automated that were not really possible before. So like all tech. Hinton and others' views preclude this more material viewpoint, or deride it as "skepticism" (which, of course, it only is if you consider the doomer vs booster argument as the only valid position).

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