Machine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan dismantles AI doom rhetoric as "grand moralizing performance"
Michael I. Jordan, described by Science as "the most influential computer scientist," considers warnings about superintelligence pure science fiction. He calls the resignations of young AI researchers a "grand moralizing performance" and companies' demands for regulation "theater." On Hinton's thesis that the brain can be reproduced in silicon and scaled into superintelligence, he's blunt: "None of the steps in this argument is credible. Here, we're in the land of science fiction."
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Michael I. Jordan, described by Science in 2016 as "the most influential computer scientist," calls warnings about existential AI threats pure science fiction. In a wide-ranging interview, he takes aim at doomers, company founders, and naive junior researchers.
Jordan, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, pushed back hard against AI doom rhetoric in an interview with Libération. The 70-year-old machine learning pioneer now works full-time at Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology in Paris, where…
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