• Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
  • Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
  • Some large tech companies didn’t want to compete with open source, he added.
  • @fubo
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    711 months ago

    The tech companies did not invent the AI risk concept. Culturally, it emerged out of 1990s futurism.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      811 months ago

      Karel Čapek wrote about it in 1920

      • @[email protected]
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        811 months ago

        Asimov actively named it the Frankenstein Complex in the 40’s/50’s, Ellison wrote about AM in 60’s…this definitely isn’t a 90’s vanity.

      • @fubo
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        311 months ago

        Yeah, but I mean the AI risk stuff that people like Steve Omohundro and Eliezer Yudkowsky write about.