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Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market (finance.yahoo.com)

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Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
Some large tech companies didn't want to compete with open source, he added.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I've read enough scifi to know that AI is a credible risk that we shouldn't be too laissez-faire with...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks like we're on the gently rising part of the AI vs. time graph. It's going to explode, seemingly overnight. Not worried about machines literally kicking our ass, but the effects are going to be wild in 100,000 different ways. And wholly unpredictable.

For us Gen Xers who straddled the digital divide, your turn Gen Z. God speed.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Another thing not talked about is the power consumption of AI. We ripped on PoW cryptocurrencies for it and they fixed it with PoS just to make room for more AI.

While more efficient AI computation is possible we're just not there yet it seems.

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