Geoffrey Hinton – Two Paths to Intelligence

Obviously he is a smart, wonderful and likeable guy, but I have to say, I don't like the way he seems really presumptuous and I'm not really to keen on the way he brings political bias into his talk.

For example (he might be joking) but he asked ChatGPT 4 if most people think they're special and it said yes, and now that's in his slide. ChatGPT has given me a lot of misinformation. I mean he really should know this.

Honestly, most people I know don't think they're special, or special because they're sentient, I'd say most people I know think they're dumb and fallible and that a computer is already smarter than them.

How do you feel about open source development of nuclear weapons

Again, I get the argument, and everyone laughs, but they're getting developed by rogue stats now, in a closed source way. So we likely know less about nuclear weapons and their capabilities now than we otherwise would.

The worst suffering people have is pain

Is it? There's a huge list of very terrible ways people can suffer that don't involve pain.

Also, I really don't want to hear about Trump or Putin. They're just faces and symptoms of larger issues.

He is doing super well for a guy his age and I know this sounds a little ageist but I do have a feeling the chat bots have blown his mind, probably a lot more than they would've if he was in his 30's. This is not to say I think he is wrong, but I do question his views and I feel myself becoming suspicious about some of the things he says.