Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
That 10 percent chance is not grounded on science. Earlier this year, Geoffrey Hinton, popularly called Godfather of AI said that people should stop training radiologists, adding that within 5 years, deep learning is going to do better than radiologists. Because you’re an alarmist that you’re doing a social good, “Don’t think for a second just. Because it comes from a scientist doesn’t make it scientific, just.
Huang said such warnings should be based on evidence and science, arguing that alarming people about AI does not automatically serve a “social good”. It is not true,” Huang said adding “I think that we ought to just all be wiser, more mature, be evidence based, be scientific”. During the podcast, Huang was asked whether he believed Geoffrey Hinton’s warnings that a “10 percent chance of societal destruction (because of AI) is not unreasonable”. “Let’s take it at face value that the recommendation is exactly what he said, which is that nobody should want to be a radiologist and the world has no radiologists today,” Huang said.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against warnings from some of the biggest names in the AI world that AI could eventually become uncontrollable and threaten humanity. In an interview on The Ezra Klein Show recently, Jensen Huang was asked about concerns raised by AI pioneers including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman , Geoffrey Hinton as well as Ilya Sutskever. “If you want to be scientific, be scientific. Do the science. But alarming people, making claims that don’t — their track record is horrible. Their track record is literally horrible,” he stated. The Nvidia chief responded saying: “I would tell Geoff that it’s irresponsible to say all that. All of his predictions have been wrong. Enough predictions. It’s not grounded on research. Those predictions are hurtful”. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.
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