All of these godfathers of AI coming out with the dark doom takes for labour, first doing the news and talk show rounds, then accepting healthy speaking fees at conferences everywhere. Maybe there is an opportunity for a grift there, but I just can’t see it.
I don’t think it’s a stretch at all. He’s coming out and plainly saying that capitalist economic relations are incompatible with mass automation. He’s saying that technology is not the problem, ergo it is capitalism that needs to go.
All of these godfathers of AI coming out with the dark doom takes for labour, first doing the news and talk show rounds, then accepting healthy speaking fees at conferences everywhere. Maybe there is an opportunity for a grift there, but I just can’t see it.
I really don’t see how Hinton critiquing capitalism as the underlying problem in our society is a negative myself.
He said one sentence mentioning capitalism, and I honestly think that calling it a critique is a stretch.
I don’t think it’s a stretch at all. He’s coming out and plainly saying that capitalist economic relations are incompatible with mass automation. He’s saying that technology is not the problem, ergo it is capitalism that needs to go.