| AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview? 15:49 - Jun 16 with 531 views | NthQldITFC |
Yoshua Bengio, Canadian-French computer scientist who received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing", together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, for their foundational work on deep learning (wikipedia) gave this interview just now on the World Service.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1s0
I think we've had discussions on here in the past where people have played down the risks of AI, but this expert speaks with great nervousness about AI models which exhibit 'deception, cheating, lying, blackmailing, and trying to hack the host computer when being shut down.'
He speaks of AI as becoming a 'competitor to humanity' with 'catastrophic risks' and 'threats to democracy'. He says governments aren't taking the real risks seriously, and experimental systems have been seen to develop/create their own goals to harm humans and escape from their constraints.
He references 'the end of humanity' as a possibility several times, and speaks of the phenomenal speed of change and the 'tendency in the last few months indicating that AIs want to break out and get rid of us'.
He says we have a 'window in which we could make right decisions' and that the 'public needs a voice' and needs to educate themselves. He says AI has its own intentions and that this is not a sci-fi movie but experiments going on in labs all over the world today.
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I recognise that the above is all very vague in a sense, but then I think the implication is that our knowledge and control of the future of AI in our/its world is pretty vague and tenuous too, and perhaps not really in our hands as much as we might wish to think, and that the timeline seems to be very compressed.
Yoshua Bengio seems to me to speak with great authority and seems very worried.
Just wondering what people's thoughts are in June 2025 (and how they may have changed since say June 2024).
Do we just carry on and accentuate the positives, or do we change our world view a bit and step back on this issue whilst we have a chance? |  |
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| AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview? on 16:00 - Jun 16 with 478 views | J2BLUE |
It's being massively underestimated.
It's going to cause massive disruption and far quicker than people think. |  |
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| AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview? on 16:09 - Jun 16 with 435 views | Bluecoin |
| AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview? on 16:00 - Jun 16 by J2BLUE |
It's being massively underestimated.
It's going to cause massive disruption and far quicker than people think. |
People have no idea of the disruptions coming. You've all got about 5 years basically. Nothing will be the same.
There is no stopping it either. Anyone can develop an AI model with a good enough compoota.
Invest in our demise! |  | | |
| AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview? on 16:14 - Jun 16 with 410 views | WeWereZombies |
I was watching the HARDtalk interview with Mathieu Kassovitz (auteur who made 'La Haine') this morning and he expressed the opinion that cinema is as good as finished, everything will be made by AI now. But if it means that all we get are trashy Marvel movies I can see people turning off and going in search of something new that satisfies human curiosity. Just so long as the machines allow us to do that... |  |
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| AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview? on 16:23 - Jun 16 with 383 views | Wacko |
| AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview? on 16:14 - Jun 16 by WeWereZombies |
I was watching the HARDtalk interview with Mathieu Kassovitz (auteur who made 'La Haine') this morning and he expressed the opinion that cinema is as good as finished, everything will be made by AI now. But if it means that all we get are trashy Marvel movies I can see people turning off and going in search of something new that satisfies human curiosity. Just so long as the machines allow us to do that... |
As a filmmaker, I 100% disagree. It's the same way that people still buy bespoke furniture when there's an IKEA next door |  |
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| AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview? on 19:01 - Jun 16 with 174 views | bsw72 |
We are certainly at a cross roads, and the ethics around AI needs to consider the boundaries with humanity. It has the potential to do so much, but equally the potential could be catastrophic
However, if you look at humanity, I question the ethics about parts of our so called civilised countries anyway, just look across Middle East, North Africa, Sudan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Myanmar etc etc |  | | |
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