Google · Donald Trump · Jensen Huang · The Guardian Technology
That year, Google picked up Hinton’s firm DNNresearch Inc for $44m
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The vindication sits on the mantel above the fireplace of Hinton’s red-brick home in a leafy Toronto neighbourhood.
Key facts
- That year, Google acquired Hinton’s company DNNresearch Inc for $44m; neural nets now underpin the models of the most valuable AI companies
- Hinton said that the AI venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, and the CEO of the newly rebranded SpaceXSI, Elon Musk, “don’t believe in democracy
- But in 2023, Hinton had announced his resignation from the tech giant to be able to “freely speak out about the risks of AI
- If, for example, you’re told there was a 10% possibility of a bus crashing, you wouldn’t get on the bus,” he said
Summary
Donald Trump is a “corrupt, senile felon” whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, “godfather” of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself. The pioneering computer scientist, whose work helped lay the foundations of modern AI, has since become one of the technology’s most vocal critics. The reporter hate his predictions … All of his predictions have been wrong. “That is not grounded on science, is not grounded on research. “Don’t think for a second because you’re an alarmist that you’re doing a social good. But Hinton said those criticizing him are missing a broader point about the nature of risk.