Hinton's point does make sense though.
Even if you focus an AGI on producing more cars for example, it will quickly realize that if it has more power and resources it can make more cars.
Even if you focus an AGI on producing more cars for example, it will quickly realize that if it has more power and resources it can make more cars.
In a sense this is what is already done and why ai hasn't really made the inroads people think it will even if you can ask google questions now. For the data scientists, the black magicians of the ai age, this spell is no more powerful than other spells, many of which (including ml) were created by powerful magicians from the early 1900s.