<story><title>Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neatze</author><text>“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” said Hinton to the NYT. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”&lt;p&gt;Calculators are smarter then humans in calculating, what does he mean by that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>This quote is the first thing I&amp;#x27;ve seen that really makes me worried.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think of ChatGPT as being &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; at all, and comparing it to a human seems nonsensical to me. Yet here is a Turing award winning preeminent expert in the field telling me that AI smarter than humans is less (implied: &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; less) than 30 years away and quitting his job due to the ramifications.</text></comment>
<story><title>Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neatze</author><text>“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” said Hinton to the NYT. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”&lt;p&gt;Calculators are smarter then humans in calculating, what does he mean by that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mitthrowaway2</author><text>&amp;gt; Calculators are smarter then humans in calculating, what does he mean by that?&lt;p&gt;My understanding of what he means by that is a computer that is smarter than humans in &lt;i&gt;everything, or nearly everything&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>