says universal gibs 
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The guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
We'll need universal basic income - AI 'godfather'
The computer scientist regarded as the “godfather of artificial intelligence” says the government will have to establish a universal basic income to deal with the impact of AI on inequality.
Professor Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight that a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of cash to every citizen would be needed because he was “very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”.
“I was consulted by people in Downing Street and I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea,” he said.
He said while he felt AI would increase productivity and wealth, the money would go to the rich “and not the people whose jobs get lost and that's going to be very bad for society”.
Professor Hinton is the pioneer of neural networks, which form the theoretical basis of the current explosion in artificial intelligence.
Until last year he worked at Google, but left the tech giant so he could talk more freely about the dangers from unregulated AI.
The concept of a universal basic income amounts to the government paying all individuals a set salary regardless of their means.
Critics say it would be extremely costly and divert funding away from public services, while not necessarily helping to alleviate poverty.
A government spokesman said there were "no plans to introduce a universal basic income".
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Professor Hinton reiterated his concern that there were human extinction-level threats emerging.
Developments over the last year showed governments were unwilling to rein in military use of AI, he said, while the competition to develop products rapidly meant there was a risk tech companies wouldn't “put enough effort into safety”.
Professor Hinton said "my guess is in between five and 20 years from now there's a probability of half that we'll have to confront the problem of AI trying to take over".
This would lead to an “extinction-level threat” for humans because we could have “created a form of intelligence that is just better than biological intelligence… That's very worrying for us”.
AI could “evolve”, he said, “to get the motivation to make more of itself” and could autonomously “develop a sub-goal of getting control”.
He said there was already evidence of large language models - a type of AI algorithm used to generate text - choosing to be deceptive.
He said recent applications of AI to generate thousands of military targets were the “thin end of the wedge”.
“What I'm most concerned about is when these can autonomously make the decision to kill people," he said.
Professor Hinton said something similar to the Geneva Conventions - the international treaties that establish legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war - may be needed to regulate the military use of AI.
"But I don't think that's going to happen until after very nasty things have happened,” he added.
Asked if the West was in a Manhattan Project-style race - referring to nuclear weapons research during World War Two - with autocracies such as Russia and China on the military use of AI, Professor Hinton replied: “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin said some years ago that whoever controls AI controls the world. So I imagine they're working very hard.
"Fortunately, the West is probably well ahead of them in research. We're probably still slightly ahead of China. But China's putting more resources in. And so in terms of military uses I think there's going to be a race”.
He said a better solution would be a prohibition on military uses of AI.
- B64 : Gross
- TheFatController : no happy ending
- DickButtKiss : "AI slop" is right. This is satanic ai SHIT ART!!!
- molch : h/kino
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Is seventeen square miles of prime Georgian farmland turned into grassland enough space for a herd of elephants?
the beauty': more SOLAR 
STORMS could be heading our way
I'm like a dog chasing waterfalls
being weird 
to me again. 
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please do the needful
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Demonious-X is an ancient lolcow that somethingawful's FYAD used to frick with a lot. The OG neckbeard.
He was also the incel patient zero. He was the scrote alpha and the scrote omega.
Best read to the tune of William Shatner's Rocketman
On Failed Relationships and Fleshlights - by Demonious X on Genius
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Are the developers actually woke enough to do something like that for political purposes? Who at the company made the decision? Surely the black video gaming market is not big enough to do it for the sake of making money.
- WeihnachtenSalvador : If the game flop than in a month it will be 50% off
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"Maybe this is their strategy. Add in a main character for a game that’s really controversial and that way it’ll distract from the fact you’re trying to get people to spend $130 for the f**king game.”
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) May 16, 2024
Asmongold called out Assassin’s Creed Shadows for their pricing pic.twitter.com/Lmosrp17Vb
Death threats all around, good 
opportunity
@rogerwaters love sucking peepee, as long as it's gaben and not ubisoft's
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then why is it that when they were completely dominating the whole world, they decided to have two brutal wars that killed tens of millions of them and wore them out to the point that they lost almost all their colonies?
Whites, explain yourselves.
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