Keeping at bay the dangers of AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a simple analogy for how to make artificial intelligence safe. He says that people will have to create new social norms and adapt society to the technology, the way cities developed sidewalks and crosswalks to protect children who once played in the streets. This ignores the fact that traffic deaths remain the leading cause of death for those aged five to 29, killing about 180,000 annually worldwide.
- ▪Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a simple analogy for how to make artificial intelligence safe.
- ▪He says that people will have to create new social norms and adapt society to the technology, the way cities developed sidewalks and crosswalks to protect children who once played in the streets.
- ▪This ignores the fact that traffic deaths remain the leading cause of death for those aged five to 29, killing about 180,000 annually worldwide.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a simple analogy for how to make artificial intelligence safe. He says that people will have to create new social norms and adapt society to the technology, the way cities developed sidewalks and crosswalks to protect children who once played in the streets. This ignores the fact that traffic deaths remain the leading cause of death for those aged five to 29, killing about 180,000 annually worldwide. But to Geoffrey Hinton there’s a more fundamental flaw with the argument.Professor Hinton, the Canadian “godfather of AI” who split from Google so he could speak freely about the technology, says the difference is that “cars aren’t going to gang up on you and take over ...
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