09-05-2023 12:56 via theguardian.com

TechScape: AI is feared to be apocalyptic or touted as world-changing – maybe it’s neither

Too much discourse focuses on whether AIs are the end of society or the end of human suffering – I’m more interested in the middle groundDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhat if AI doesn’t fundamentally reshape civilisation?This week, I spoke to Geoffrey Hinton, the English psychologist-turned-computer scientist whose work on neural networks in the 1980s set the stage for the explosion in AI capabilities over the last decade. Hinton wanted to speak
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