It sounds like he wanted to sound the alarm as best he could with his credibility and will likely continue to do interviews, but says he’ll be spending his time “watching netflix, hanging around with his kids, and trying to study his forward-forward algorithm some more”.
Maybe he was downplaying his plans because he wants to keep them quiet for now, but this was a little sad even though his credibility applied to discussing AI risk concerns is certainly already an amazing thing for us to have gotten.
The guy is 75 years old. Many people would have retired 10+ years ago. Any effort he’s putting in is supererogatory as far as I’m concerned. One can hope for more, of course, but let there be no hint of obligation.
Well yes, but he’s also one of the main guys who brought the field to this point so this feels a little different. That said, I’m not saying he has an obligation, just that some people might have hoped for more after seeing him go public with this.
Based on this interview, it doesn’t seem like Hinton is interested in doing a lot more for reducing AI risk: https://youtu.be/rLG68k2blOc?t=3378
It sounds like he wanted to sound the alarm as best he could with his credibility and will likely continue to do interviews, but says he’ll be spending his time “watching netflix, hanging around with his kids, and trying to study his forward-forward algorithm some more”.
Maybe he was downplaying his plans because he wants to keep them quiet for now, but this was a little sad even though his credibility applied to discussing AI risk concerns is certainly already an amazing thing for us to have gotten.
The guy is 75 years old. Many people would have retired 10+ years ago. Any effort he’s putting in is supererogatory as far as I’m concerned. One can hope for more, of course, but let there be no hint of obligation.
Well yes, but he’s also one of the main guys who brought the field to this point so this feels a little different. That said, I’m not saying he has an obligation, just that some people might have hoped for more after seeing him go public with this.