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Altman: "Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity." Meaning lights out for everyone
by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Altman: "Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity." Meaning lights out for everyone.
Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, give 50% and 20% we face extinction respectively.
"“We don’t know how much time we have before it gets really dangerous,” Professor Bengio says.
“What I’ve been saying now for a few weeks is ‘Please give me arguments, convince me that we shouldn’t worry, because I’ll be so much happier.’
“And it hasn’t happened yet.”
Speaking with Background Briefing, Professor Bengio shared his p(doom), saying: “I got around, like, 20 per cent probability that it turns out catastrophic.”"
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, "There's a 25% chance that things go really, really badly"
- queenkjuul 2mo agoWell sama is a complete fucking idiot and Dario profits from the doomerism. Climate change is burning thousands of people's homes to the ground right this second. Edit to add: every serious climate scientist has been warning of the dangers of climate change with far greater than 25-50% certainty, and with actual science to back that up, and all the actual evidence we get to experience ourselves in reality today, and you are for some reason more concerned about vague warnings from a man like Altman, a well-known and prolific liar? Really??