Geoffrey Hinton: “We're toast. This is the actual end of history”
&gt; In May 2023, a colonel in the US Air Force revealed a simulation in which an AI-enabled drone, tasked with attacking surface-to-air missiles but acting under the authority of a human operator, attacked the operator instead. (The US Air Force later denied the story.)<p>This casts a shadow on the reliability of the whole article.  While the retraction (they later stated that this was a thought experiment and NOT a simulation) may or may not be true, the current state of AI would suggest that this kind of chain-of-logic problem-solving is likely out of reach.  To put this in here without such a caveat and instead use the &#x27;later denied&#x27; language is a strong indicator that we&#x27;re being sold a story, and not the whole one.<p>The quotes and other horror-scenario errata also come off a little thin.  If Hinton really, genuinely believes the world is ending, then why is he working on the generational successor to backpropagation [1]?<p>Good way to sell &#x27;news&#x27;, though.  Keep &#x27;em scared, keep &#x27;em reading, I guess.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2212.13345" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2212.13345</a>