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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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[–] 5BC2E7 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There was a lot of controversy about him exploiting the people working for him and he publicly doubled down on admitting the need to overwork them.

Edito: here is a source where they warn the new hires about 70hours per week being normal unfortunately i did not find another source, it’s from xitter: https://twitter.com/betaorbust/status/908890982136942592

[–] ripe_banana 2 points 1 year ago

This looks like it's from the aifund thing he is a part of, but it seems like they took that part out. I have never worked for of those companies so idk 🤷‍♂️.