With artificial intelligence, the sky really is about to fall

If you must talk about the Great Replacement, this is the one to watch.

AI pioneer Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, warns that 'If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter,' writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 31, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—“Sometimes I think it’s as if aliens have landed and people haven’t realized because they speak very good English,” said Geoffrey Hinton, the ‘godfather of AI’ (artificial intelligence), who resigned from Google and now fears his godchildren will b...

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