AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI

163 points by kiyomoris 7 hours ago on reddit | 19 comments

odin_the_wiggler | 7 hours ago

No shit...

Available_Usual_9731 | an hour ago

Like, 75% of popular sci fi already told us that.

lc4444 | 7 hours ago

r/NoShitSherlock

PlentyAlbatross7632 | 6 hours ago

r/BeatMeToIt

NihiloZero | 59 minutes ago

"Methinks perhaps there could be some negatives associated with AI."

jseego | 7 hours ago

we still can be tho

Bird-in-a-suit | 7 hours ago

For real

conception | 2 hours ago

Unfortunately, humans as groups are really really bad at prisoner's dilemma.

JC_Hysteria | 6 hours ago

Yeah prob, and dinosaurs would have been better off without the meteor but here we are

djobouti_phat | 6 hours ago

No shit, Dick Tracy.

DangerousLoner | 5 hours ago

Captain Obvious checking in

qualitystreet | 7 hours ago

Not going to read, hindsight as wisdom is always self serving.

Bird-in-a-suit | 7 hours ago

I think whether it’s only self-serving depends on whether this dude changes anything to account for it

FuzzyBagpuss | 7 hours ago

He probably thought of it conceptually as an incredible tool but now he knows what it's likely to become and who's likely to control it he feels a bit of a twat.

jackparadise1 | 6 hours ago

Duh.

Eastern-Criticism653 | 3 hours ago

It already is.

absolute_zero_karma | an hour ago

Agriculture 'godfather' Kushim from ancient Sumer says it might turn out humans would have been better off without agriculture.

Chugach123 | 7 hours ago

NO SHIT!! but we’ll all be dead so it won’t matter