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#GeoffreyHinton

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I encountered Google Gemini on my Android phone, last night. It had a voice and was selling it's new voice activated service. The problem is, I no longer trust Google nor Gemini to be an honest broker. I use other AIs like #DeepSeek, #Mistral, and #Cohere because they will answer. Gemini refuses to answer political questions or do political analysis. So, in my polite voice I say #FuckOffAndDieSundarPichai. #GeoffreyHinton left #Google. And now we know why.

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Update. "Elon #Musk’s fellowship of the #RoyalSociety remains intact after a meeting of the scientific body, the Guardian has learned, but questions remain about whether further action will be taken…Earlier on Monday, the Nobel laureate and AI pioneer #GeoffreyHinton – a fellow of the Royal Society – posted on X that he supported Musk’s removal. “I think Elon Musk should be expelled from the British Royal Society. Not because he peddles conspiracy theories and makes Nazi salutes, but because of the huge damage he is doing to scientific institutions in the US."

Geoffrey Hinton might be getting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, but that doesn’t mean we should start taking his statements about AI becoming intelligent and threatening humanity seriously.

They’re sci-fi fantasies, not reality. My take in the Toronto Star:

thestar.com/opinion/contributo

Toronto StarToronto’s latest Nobel Prize winner is wrong: AI isn’t going to take overBy Paris Marx, Contributor
#tech#ai#genai
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Last Week in AI #291 - Nobel Prizes, Adobe's Video Model, Tesla's Robots
Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists and Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists Adobe’s AI video model is here, and more!
lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-a

Last Week in AI · Last Week in AI #291 - Nobel Prizes, Adobe's Video Model, Tesla's RobotsBy Last Week in AI
#AI#ML#NLP
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> After decades of effort to advance AI, he [Geoffrey Hinton] is now one of the most prominent advocates for better safeguards, having stepped down last year from an influential position at Google to speak more freely about the technology’s risks. “[AI] will be comparable with the industrial revolution,” he said during his telephone interview. “But instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it's going to exceed people in intellectual ability. We have no experience of what it’s like to have things smarter than us, and it’s going to be wonderful in many respects… **But we also have to worry about a number of possible bad consequences, particularly the threat of these things getting out of control.**”

#STOCKHOLM (#Reuters) -U.S. scientist #JohnHopfield and British-Canadian #GeoffreyHinton won the 2024 #NobelPrize in #Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for #MachineLearning, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Nobel prize in physics goes to machine learning pioneers
msn.com/en-us/news/technology/

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@ChemistryViews The genesis of #AI was the PhD advisor of #GeoffreyHinton , Christopher Longuet-Higgins who relocated to #Edinburgh from the #Chemistry Department at Cambridge to focus his research on modelling how the brain 🧠 processed information using what was then known about the #chemistry and #physiology of neurons. 👉 inf.ed.ac.uk/events/christophe

www.inf.ed.ac.ukSchool of Informatics: in memoriam Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins