"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it." Hinton referenced Oppenheimer some time before he changed direction on this and resi

"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it." Hinton referenced Oppenheimer some time before he changed direction on this and resigned from Google. It sounds like what made the difference to him was a flip from "far mode" thinking where something like human level seemed at least decades off, and thus felt like a cloudy abstraction, to near mode.