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Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious to c/technology
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  • Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
  • Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
  • Some large tech companies didn't want to compete with open source, he added.
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[–] fubo 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The tech companies did not invent the AI risk concept. Culturally, it emerged out of 1990s futurism.

[–] SpaceNoodle 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Karel Čapek wrote about it in 1920

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Asimov actively named it the Frankenstein Complex in the 40's/50's, Ellison wrote about AM in 60's.....this definitely isn't a 90's vanity.

[–] fubo 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but I mean the AI risk stuff that people like Steve Omohundro and Eliezer Yudkowsky write about.