I understand Hinton’s credentials, and I personally believe there are serious threats posed by AI to society. But reading Hinton’s words made him come off, for

I understand Hinton’s credentials, and I personally believe there are serious threats posed by AI to society. But reading Hinton’s words made him come off, for lack of a better word, unhinged? > I asked Hinton for the strongest argument against his own position. “Yann thinks its rubbish,” he replied. “It’s all a question of whether you think that when ChatGPT says something, it understands what it’s saying. I do.” > “A few months ago, I suddenly changed my mind,” he said at the Cambridge event. “I don’t think there is anything special about people, other than to other people.” > “I still can’t take this seriously, emotionally. Who knows. I don’t want to simply dismiss his concerns, but he also doesn’t give as much as a single substantive thought as to nature of the threat or possible solutions. Frankly, he sounds more like someone having a personal existential crisis than someone rationally assessing an existential threat to humanity.