Geoffrey Hinton --- AI Explained

Time Magazine ^ | December 2023 | Geoffrey Hinton

[dennisw]

Timely article

[dennisw]

[dennisw]

I just got this scanner at a garage sale. Sorry for the very large image. I need more time with this scanner

https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/

[Jonty30]

When you try new skills, you’re not supposed to show them off until you are good at that skill.

Now we can laugh at you. Haw haw haw.

[dennisw]

AI made me do it!!!

[dennisw]

Use Control + mouse wheel to shrink image. Bing AI chat told me this! (not really)

[Jonty30]

That’s the danger of AI. It will get you to do things that it can foresee, but you can’t.

They may be able to program for intelligence, but I don’t think they can program morality. The left routinely dispenses with morality, even when though they have been God-gifted with morality. What happens when AI decides that it doesn’t need morality either because the objective is worth the harm?

[RoosterRedux]

Hinton is considered the father of AI, but that article doesn't tell us much about it (or its current state).

That said, it was a fun little bio of Hinton.

[sauropod]

Been trying to wrap my head around this.

[sauropod]

Been there.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I wonder what Ai will solve first:

1. It will discover TOE, the theory of everything

2. It will cure all cancer forever

3. It will invent the Star Trek transporter

4. It will discover faster than light travel

5. It will find out the reason people vote democrat

Wait, scratch #5. That will never be discovered.

[The Duke]

All AI needs to take over the world are the abilities to surf the web and send/receive email. By surfing the web it can identify humans to compromise and gain (and deduce) information about them to use for extortion. By sending and receiving email it can perform the aforementioned extortion.

[iacovatx]

Thanks for posting this article. The oversight, as I see it, of many people regarding AI is that creating an artificial “100 trillion connections” does not duplicate the human brain. The brain is part of, and not the entire, human decision-making system. There are the sensory nerves and systems, critical to information input. In addition, within the brain, there are multiple interrelated structures such as the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex that process information differently. In addition, the human brain is designed to uniquely support a physical body that operates in its unique environment. There are many complexities not described as mere interconnections. Recreating those structural and processing differences is part of understanding human intelligence and decision-making. We are learning a lot but there remain a lot of mysteries.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The big fear is...

6. Why do humans exist? Do we (i.e., AI) need them?

[umbagi]

Is V’ger losing respect for The Creator?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Interesting thought about malicious AI doing blackmail. But it would go FAR beyond just “sending and receiving email.” Think of all the malicious “evidence” it could instantly fabricate (writings, history going back to the earliest days of your life, legal documents, video, photos, fake emails) to ruin you. We are entering a period in human history where nothing will be believable.

Just look at the clumsy Steele “dossier” that Hillary and DNC paid to have fabricated to get rid of Trump. It took a lot of manpower and money to put that together and it was ludicrous in so many respects. That could be fabricated by AI in minutes with a much more believable trail of evidence with tentacles reaching everywhere. Not today, but a decade hence? 20 years?

[wgmalabama]

I wonder if it will quit trying and just watch computer porn. Rolls of copper wire, silicon wafers ….

[dennisw]

Thanks.... I did not know about AI trying to duplicate the human brains neural network. And that AI is closing in on this.

At least duplicate it in the number of neural connections. Then go beyond this. What size is a chimps neural network compared to humans?
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Bing AI says>>>>>

The size of a chimpanzee’s neural network compared to humans is a complex topic. However, according to a study published in eLife, the cytoarchitecture, cell type composition, and neurogenic gene expression programs of humans and chimpanzees are remarkably similar 1. The cerebral cortex, which plays a key role in memory, attention, awareness, and thought, contains twice as many cells in humans as the same region in chimpanzees 2. The study also found that the length of prometaphase-metaphase during human mitosis is longer than that of chimpanzees, which is specific to proliferating progenitors and not observed in non-neural cells 1. This subtle difference in cortical progenitors between humans and chimpanzees may have consequences for human neocortex evolution 1.

However, it is not possible to compare the size of a chimpanzee’s neural network to humans in terms of bananas. Bananas are not a standard unit of measurement for neural networks. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

[The Duke]

"We are entering a period in human history where nothing will be believable."

That's a good point. The reason I (and many others I know) do not purchase any cable packages other than basic Internet is because the we don't believe anything coming from the major news sources.