by Gwynne Dyer “Sometimes I think it’s as if aliens have landed and people haven’t realised because they speak very good English,” said Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI” (Artificial Intelligence) who now fears his god-children will…
First, new programs of the ChatGPT generation that can write plausible essays and maybe even engage in a bit of pseudo-human banter do not frighten the computer geeks and philosophers. AI is software that performs specific tasks well, whereas AGI could understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can.
