Nice article.

Interesting that Hinton’s alarmist views e.g “My intuition is: we’re toast. This is the actual end of history.” are being poo-pooed by other experts in the field, just like they were “respectfully scorning” his ideas for many decades on how to create AI before her was proven right.

Memorable quotes:
“We’re dealing with an event that’s never occurred before in human history, of something more intelligent than us,” he said
“There is not a good track record of less intelligent things controlling things of greater intelligence,” he told the New Yorker in a brief exchange.
“Well, it’s too awful.” What is? “Them taking over. It’s not going to be pretty. Did you ever see a big change of power like that, that was pretty?” But couldn’t we turn off a machine that threatened us? “No, you can’t. You will be completely dependent on it by then.”
He continued: “This is a realm where we have no experience and no understanding of the possibilities, but they’re going to be very good at manipulation. And if they’ve got any sense, they won’t let us know that they’re much smarter than us. I’m not confident about any of these conclusions. But I’m confident that there’s not nothing to worry about.”

Seems like Hinton’s life story is a movie in the making…ending in the AI apocalypse, oh well…