Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. Doomers [the Ezra Klein Show]

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3 points·paulpauper··4 comments

Huang is a salesman for his Ai hardware company and he is not qualified to debate the humanity and progress issues. If there is a pro-Ai entity to debate with, it has to be an independent voice with a logical point of view.. I am sure there are people like that. I don't remember his name, but there is this guy who believes that humanity has to progress and not stand still or whatever.. Agree or disagree, at least pick someone like him with credentials to debate with.

Geoffrey Hinton himself perhaps?

Most Americans including those working in Ai believe that MIT is father of Ai. They don't even know that MIT approach to Ai was flawed and that it was Hinton figured it out. I don't think that they know who he is and that he was in fact father of current approach to Ai.

In any case, I don't know who they would choose to debate the case but I am sure there are knowledgeable experts on both side outside of commercial interest. People who own Ai stocks are definitely not qualified.

Yeah, I don’t know how to fix this but all the people I’ve heard who think we should have zero concern for AI fall into three categories: the people who stand to gain significant money/fame/power, politicians who have little idea how these things work, and the average people who parrot the first two.

You could argue that there is significant overlap between the first two but I think politicians are worth distinguishing because a) how ignorant they tend to be and b) they have significantly more influence.

People really need to start listening to the people who built these things and don’t stand to gain monetarily. It’s like ignoring climate change but potentially somehow worse.

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